A while back I did an introduction about .xinitrc which is a nice display manager free way of autostarting programs with Linux. With .xinitrc you can however do much more than start some programs. In fact you can start the whole desktop with .xinitrc and a command known as startx Continue reading
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Autostarting applications with .xinitrc
There is certainly a number of ways to autostart applications. As it happens every window manager has its own way of doing autostarting and at some point you might get a bit confused about where exactly you should put your autostart entries. To overcome the problems of autostarting you can use a file called .xinitrc . Continue reading