Startup Script for Firefox

[Kenton Brede]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:40:35AM +1000, Alfred Vahau (alfredv at upng.ac.pg) wrote:
> I have customized the Ubuntu-installed Firefox browser for browsing our 
> online Library Catalogue.
> I now want to put it in a start up script so that after a user logs in 
> from the desktop, Firefox is automatically
> fired up displaying the page for the Online catalog. I want to 
> experiment with the script
> and find the right run level to place it under but being new to Ubuntu 
> (2 weeks now), I would appreciate some pointers in where I may look.

You should be able to start it from .xsession in the home directory.

In the user home directory create .xsession and a line similar to the
one below.  Then restart your X session.  Make sure you add the
ampersand. 

/usr/bin/firefox http://yourlibrary.university.edu/ &

Kent

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