how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Thu Aug 28 16:27:13 BST 2008


hi,
On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a user
> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that
> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow
> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out?
ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm do)
one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is to
use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart

ciao
	oli
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