Re: How do I start an application after fluxbox starts?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Jeff Schallenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using Fluxbox with Xubuntu 8.04.
>
> I am trying to use the bbpager utility in the slit - it just works better
> than fbpager and ipager on my little eeePC. But BBPager has the peculiarity
> that it will not start until AFTER fluxbox is started.
>
> When I was using BlackBox as a Window Manager, I was able to insert a "sleep
> 2 &" statement into the blackbox startup script.
>
> So, how can I do that with FluxBox?
>
> I consulted the wiki article:
>
> "How do I start an application after fluxbox starts"
>
> - but unfortunately that article doesn't say what file to edit or replace. I
> think an edit is in order.
>
> With Xubuntu, there is no .xinitrc or .xsession file. Instead, the
> startfluxbox script is run by the /usr/share/xsessions/fluxbox.desktop file.
>
> To have bbpager run withdrawn a few seconds after FluxBox starts, into which
> file should I be inserting statements like:
>
> exec fluxbox &
>  fbpid=$!
>
>
>  sleep 2
>  {
>
>    bbpager -w &
>  } &
>
>
>  wait $fbpid
>
> - Anybody got an idea?
>

Fluxbox startup commands usually go into $HOME/.fluxbox/startup --
where the last line is:
exec /path/to/fluxbox

Ron


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>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> --
> - Jeff Schallenberg
> Saint Lambert, Québec
>
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