Startup Script for Firefox

[Kenton Brede]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:59:49AM -0500, Kenton Brede (kbrede at nixnotes.org) wrote:
> 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/ &

Now that I think about it you might have to log the user out and back in
for this to take effect.  It has been a while ;)
Kent

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