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Flake

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Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 17

How to postpone application startup in Gnome Sessions

I put xcompmgr to autostart, but being started before gnome-panel it ignores parameter "-C" which sets no shadows for panels. So my gnome-panel casts shadow, by killall I can restart xcompmgr and it works fine.

I tried to use "pause 10; xcompmgr -cC" as startup command but xcompmgr doesn't start at all

Or is there any other way to make xcompmgr star after gnome has finished launching?

Thanks in advance!

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: How to postpone application startup in Gnome Sessions

use "sleep 10 && xcompmgr -cC"

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Flake

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Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 17

Re: How to postpone application startup in Gnome Sessions

still nope - nothing starts with "sleep 10 && ..."

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: How to postpone application startup in Gnome Sessions

write a little script, something like this:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 7 && xcompmgr -cC

make it executable (chmod +x scriptname) and autostart the script instad of xcompmgr.

Flake

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Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 17

Re: How to postpone application startup in Gnome Sessions

thanks, it helped!