Startup Script for Firefox

[Sam Tygier]

try sessions preference panel. an the startup items tab

Kenton Brede wrote:
> 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
>