[Sussex] Firefox on login Fedora Core 5

[Nic James Ferrier]

"Brendan Whelan" <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way,  when a user logs in of having a Firefox window open
> automatically at a specific page
> (e.g. http://localhost/my_location/my_prog.php). Obviously, it will
> be a big advantage to users if the application they want to use is
> instantly accessible.

On Debian this works:

$ cat > USERDIR/.Xsession
firefox http://localhost/my_location/my_prog.php &
/usr/bin/window-manager
^D

$ chown USERNAME USERDIR/.Xsession
$ chmod u+x USERDIR/.Xsession

this works because /usr/bin/window-manager is a link to whatever the
window-manager is configured by default.

A similar thing will be possible on Fedora, but you might have to
specify the window-manager directly.


Btw if you're using GNOME or KDE there are GNOME or KDE ways to
startup applications so you don't have to alter the X config. You
should use those if you're a GNOME or KDE user.


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Nic Ferrier
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