Starting applications automaticaly

[Anthony M. Agelastos]

As far as the xhost command goes, have you tried putting a & at the 
end, i.e.
xhost +, su, xbattbar &
That backgrounds the job, which should allow you to close the xterm 
from which it sprang (I could be wrong as I'm a newbie as well).

On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Brian Kinsey wrote:

> I am using xfce on FreeBSD 5.3. How do I make an application start up
> automatically when xfce starts up? I am trying to learn on a laptop 
> and I
> would like to have xbattbar start up automatically. Right now, I open a
> terminal window and type xhost +, su, xbattbar and then I have to 
> leave the
> terminal window open.
>
>
>
> I know this is probably in the handbook (which I admittedly have not 
> read in
> its entirety), but I can not find anything in the ToC, the index, or 
> from
> searching Google. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing? Any help, 
> even if
> it is just a reference to the proper place to look in the handbook, 
> would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
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