Re: starting applications as fluxbox starts (was: fluxter -w upon startup)

it seems that fluxbox overwrite the apps file constantly, probably using a
buffered copy of the file, because every time i edit apps file while fluxbox
is running, my changes are lost. as i hate to shutdown X and close all apps,
what i do is switch to another wm, change the apps file, and then come back
to flux =)
i noticed this behavior with the slitlist file as well...
anyone has any clue/workaround about it? thanks

On 3/2/06, Valter Toffolo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> here it goes my "elegant" startup trick, maybe other people adopt it too
> ;)
>
> i know nothing about ubuntu and kdm, and didn't knew about startfluxbox
> script neither ~/.fluxbox/startup but i just noticed that startfluxbox is
> the one which runs ~/.fluxbox/startup and this file runs all apps and
> fluxbox last. correct me if i'm wrong. but if this is the case, it seems you
> need to start fluxter after fluxbox, not before.. i use fbpager and it was
> on my ~/.xinitrc file and starting before fluxbox and it's odd but it was
> working.. then i got sick of putting stuff on my .xinitrc and thought i
> should have a script fluxbox would run itself as it starts..
>
> so here it goes my trick
> there's a ~/.fluxbox/apps file, which keeps application specific settings
> as decorations, dimensions, position... but there's another thing you can do
> with this file, you can start applications as fluxbox starts. so what i do
> is add the following line to ~/.fluxbox/apps
> [startup]     { ~/.fluxbox/startup.sh }
> then i put everything i want fluxbox to do when it starts in
> ~/.fluxbox/startup.sh rather than starting it before fluxbox in the script
> which runs fluxbox... yeah it's a trick but i think it's "elegant" this way,
> imho it's better than putting a lot of [startup] lines in the apps file or
> putting it all in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession or even this ~/.fluxbox/startup
> i just met..
>
> On 3/2/06, Jonathan Groll <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I can't seem to get fluxter to startup in the slit together with my
> > other dockapps, ie.
> > fluxter -w &
> > in ~/.fluxbox/startup (inserted before: exec /usr/bin/fluxbox)
> > is ineffective, and if I log output to a file it shows:-
> > Cannot connect to window manager
> >
> > Of course, there is no problem manually launching fluxter from the
> > desktop after startup.
> >
> > Anyone got an elegant way to launch it upon startup? (At the moment I'm
> > thinking of writing a script with a sleep in it)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jonathan
> >
> > P.S. If it is relevant, I am using kdm on ubuntu to start fluxbox with
> > the startfluxbox script.
> >
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