auto start program

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew Glen-Young wrote:

> On 09/10/2007, August <tan.august at gmail.com> wrote:
>> add commands/programs in ~/.bashrc to start when user log in system
> 
> My apologies, I missed the start of this thread. I would like to
> comment that using '~/.bashrc' will run the command whenever the
> user's bash shell is run. If you want to run the command only once per
> session then you should probably use '~/.bash_profile' instead (or
> more accurately - when a login shell is run).

or ~/.xsession (once per X session), or KDE has a per-user Autostart folder
and I would have thought Gnome would too.
-- 
derek