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Linux Execute program at boot time with Gentoo

Discussion in 'Software' started by simon w, 30 Apr 2004.

  1. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    I've just emerged (you gotta love that program :rock: ) a program called numlockx. How would configure Gentoo to execute this program at boot time?
     
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    Read the Gentoo FAQ it will answer your question perfectly.

    BTW - The FAQ under Docs
     
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  3. Uncle Psychosis

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    There are lots of different ways of doing it. You could add the line

    to your .xsession, or you could add it to the default runlevel (Which isn't the way I would do it). I would check out the Gentoo FAQ and also the forums on gentoo.org, which are damned good :D

    Sam
     
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  4. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    Sorry, sorted this a while ago. Adding numlock to rcupdate, both as default and boot, half worked. Num lock was on at run level 3, and was also turned on when I ran startx, but then it turned itself off whilst loading X/xfce...

    I found that placing a shortcut to numlockx in /home/simon/desktop/autostart (?) worked :thumb:
     
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  5. Uncle Psychosis

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    Ahh, sounds like you have a WM that makes it nice and easy for you. I'm guessing you're using KDE or Gnome? I'm more of a fluxbox man myself!

    Sam
     
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    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    Nopers, I'm using xfce :clap: I prefer it to kde & gnome
     
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    I recently moved to XFCE from fluxbox and haven't gone back :D
     
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  8. Uncle Psychosis

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    OOoh...I've been thinking about doing that. What did you have to do?

    emerge xfce, then change the xinitrc? Anything else? Or am I talking baws?

    Sam
     
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  9. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    I think I just emerged xfce and then set the XSESSION variable
     
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  10. Uncle Psychosis

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    Ahh, ok. Well it seems to be working. I fiddled with my .xinitrc a bit too!

    Sam
     
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  11. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    *Simon goes off to learn what .xinitrc is all about*
     
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