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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: Autostart (Was: Third-party sessioning requests)
From:       Ray Strode <halfline () hawaii ! rr ! com>
Date:       2004-01-11 8:48:25
Message-ID: 40010DD9.4090508 () hawaii ! rr ! com
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Lubos Lunak wrote:

> No, this wouldn't work :(. RedHat puts both KDE and GNOME in /usr, so both 
>have their to-be-started apps in /usr/share/autostart, the user logs in for 
>the first time, and get KDE and GNOME together, minus the components like WMs 
>which detect the conflict and only one of them wins. With WMs it could get 
>wrong also e.g. if KDE has KWin as the default WM to be started, but the user 
>switches to Metacity instead - on the other hand, limiting to only one WM 
>wouldn't work because of the already mentioned problem with dualhead and WMs 
>per screen.
>
As Oswald said, each desktop would get their own autostart directory and
a common one.

/usr/share/kde/autostart
/usr/share/gnome/autostart
/usr/share/autostart

~/.local/autostart
~/.gnome2/autostart (or maybe ~/.local/gnome/autostart ?)
~/.kde/autostart (or maybe ~/.local/kde/autostart ?)

--Ray

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