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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

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start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

I'm playing with DEs and want to start gnome-components indepently of gnome automatically when X is started.

if I run openbox, I have started these parts of gnome from a terminal

gnome-settings daemon
nautilus
gnome-panel

how can I start these automatically?

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-04-10 15:35:43)

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SamC

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

Just like you would start anything else? Put them in your ~/.xinitrc.

Raccoon1400

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

that works for some of them.
It doesn't like starting nautilus and the settings daemon from there

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zeratul289

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

For Openbox specifically, put anything you want to autostart in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. Make sure to append each command with a & in order for them to run concurrently.

Raccoon1400

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

For Openbox specifically, put anything you want to autostart in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. Make sure to append each command with a & in order for them to run concurrently.

Doesn't seem to work:
duncan@duncan-arch ~]$cat ./.config/openbox/autostart.sh
gnome-panel &
gnome-settings-daemon &
nautilus &
duncan@duncan-arch ~]$

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-04-10 02:33:17)

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Raccoon1400

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

got it now, I had to say openbox-session in .xinitrc instead of just openbox.

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moljac024

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh  <-- that's where you should put it

EDIT: Ooops, replied to an older version of this

Last edited by moljac024 (2009-04-10 08:54:02)

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Raccoon1400

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Re: start gnome components automatically independant of gnome [SOLVED]

solved, but this idea didn't really gain much speed, if any.

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