How to get apps to start up on GDM startup?

Le grand pinguin rm at mh-freiburg.de
Wed Nov 10 16:48:21 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:23:26AM -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
> I have a howto to get the thumb buttons working here:
> http://www.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=3828
> but the problem is that it only works for startx users, because the 
> xmodmap command won't work with the sessions applet's startup section 
> for some reason. Is there a file like .xinitrc for GDM, or is there a 
> way to edit the specific session file (ie. Gnome and KDE entries for the 
> GDM sessions) to start it up? Thanks!

Why don't you put the appropriate shell snippet into 
'/etc/X11/Xsession.d/'???

 HTH Ralf Mattes
> Travis
> 
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