Re: [LUG] Debian and starting programs at login

[James Keasley <jamesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> jamesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
> > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:53:10PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > What I am still trying to achieve is to get my sigmonster script and 
> numlockx started at login, as well as getting
>
> If you want to make something available to GUI programs, it'll need to
> be in a GUI script. .bash_profile and .bashrc will make it available
> in terminals and GUI XTerm sessions. (I would set PATH in .bashrc
> rather than .bash_profile.) To make ~/bin/ part of your path for GUI
> applications, you will need to put something in .xinitrc or .xsession.

Finally got it sorted, GDM won't read .bash_profile, it reads 
either .gnomerc (in debian, though this is a nonstandard behaviour 
apparently) or .profile. Took a little while of digging around in
the GDM scripts to find this out though ;)

> > The only other thing I have noticed is really really trivial, my
> > system Bell no longewr seems to work under
> > debian, which is weird and slightly annoying.
>
> Check that you haven't configured it as a system sound instead of the
> system bell.

It wasn't that, it was even weirder, the stock Debian 2.6 kernel
doesn't, apparently, load the pcspkr module by default, which I find 
truly truly odd. Once that was loaded everything was good again.

-- 
James                                   jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed 
moral bankruptcy."  Woody Allen

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