Re: .kde4/Autostart doesn't work

[David <david.maillists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you a lot! So autostart procedures have changed from KDE3 and I did not know :-)

I moved the shell script from autostart to env and it worked. I see that I can have more than one shell script in env, can't I?

Please Cc to me if replying.

Thank you very much for this detailed reply.

2009/4/14 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In <1fde22350904141006l524d69bbv1f45594d787a4134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>My script  ~/.kde4/Autostart/autostart.sh is not run in my Arch box (and
> the user has permissions to execute it). Is this a known problem? How can
> I debug/solve it?

~/.kde4/Autostart is a container for .desktop files, not shell scripts.
You'll need to write a .desktop file that has your shell script on the Exec
line if you want to use Autostart.

You might want to use ~/.kde4/env instead.  It is a container for files that
are sourced (run in the current shell environment) during kde session
startup.

IIRC, anything done from .kde4/env should not expect kded-type services
running, where as ~/.kde4/Autostart can depend on those services.

I use both for my purposes.  A script in env to start ssh/gpg agents and set
environment variables.  A script in Autostart to load my keys, asking for
passwords with graphical dialogs.

>Please Cc to me when replying. Thank you,

Done.
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