On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:18:05AM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 3/28/11, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: How do I add startup programs in Gnome 3? > > To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:56 PM > > On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 20:11 +0100, > > Michael Spahn wrote: > > > I think there actually isn't a option in Gnome 3. > > > > > > You can use the .xinitrc file in your home folder. > > > > > > This file will be executed by login in with you user. > > > > > > cat "(sleep 1 && gkrellm) &" >> > > ~/.xinitrc > > > > > > This isn't a solution for a missing function, but it > > works. > > > > A much more correct way is to drop a .desktop file in > > ~/.config/autostart (which is actually what the GNOME 2 GUI > > did anyway). > > -- > > Folks, > > None of these methods work for starting gkrellm when gnome3 starts :( > > [students@maddog ~]$ cat ~/.config/autostart > (sleep 2 && gkrellm) & > > or > > in ~/.xinitrc > > None do the job. Might have to check the gnome-settings? package. I wanted this work to not install the package which soon might be depracated? > I'm using gnome-settings for starting gkrellm here. But looking at my ~/.config/autostart *directory* I see: $ ls ~/.config/autostart/ dropbox.desktop gkrellm.desktop And the contents of gkrellm.desktop are: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/gkrellm Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=gkrellm Name=gkrellm Comment[en_US]=system preformance monitoring Comment=system preformance monitoring > Thanks, > > Antonio > > > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test