[Sussex] Firefox on login Fedora Core 5

[Brendan Whelan]

Thanks for the responses - I use the Gnome interface.

Brendan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nic James Ferrier" <nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Firefox on login Fedora Core 5


> "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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nic Ferrier
> http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk   for all your tapsell ferrier needs
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