autorun script on login

[Jonathan Hartje]

Jospeh,
    Thanks. I'll give that a try and see what happens. I really 
appreciate all the help.

Jon

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

>Not quite... You don;t want to exec startkde since it will take over the
>shell. I think this will work:
>.xinitrc:
>
>#!/bin/bash
>EXEC="/home/demo/runtime/bin/DEMO.sh"
>$EXEC start > /tmp/DEMO.log 2>&1 
>
>startkde
>
>$EXEC stop
>
>Discussion
>-------------
>Unless "DEMO.sh start" launches the application and then exits, you will
>have to put it into background, otherwise you will never get to
>startkde.
>
>startkde should "block" until the user exits so a wait would be
>unnecessary
>
>-Joseph
>
>============================================================================
>
>
>On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 16:52 -0500, Jonathan Hartje wrote:
>  
>
>>Joseph,
>>    Thanks for the info. Would the follwing work for waiting..?
>>
>>.xinitrc:
>>
>>   #!/bin/bash
>>
>>    EXEC="/home/demo/runtime/bin/DEMO.sh"
>>
>>    $EXEC start >/tmp/DEMO.log 2>&1
>>
>>    sleep 20;
>>
>>    exec startkde &
>>
>>    wait;
>>
>>    $EXEC stop
>>
>>#End of xinitrc
>>
>>
>>
>>Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Take a look at
>>>
>>>	~/.bash_logout
>>>
>>>There are other options...
>>>
>>>-Joseph
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:09 -0500, Jonathan Hartje wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Joseph and Mark,
>>>>   Thanks again. The .xsession did the trick! I read the info Joseph 
>>>>pointed me to; However, I'm now in the same situation but the reverse 
>>>>timing. Is there an equivalent file which gets sourced on logout? I'll 
>>>>need to reset the software on logout so the next user that comes along 
>>>>gets a fresh runtime. I'm half way there.. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Jonathan
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