On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:33:01AM -0500, Jon Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:32:13AM -0400, Luc Bergeron wrote:
> > What is the best way to auto-start dockapps in blackbox ? I start
> > them in the .xinitrc file. What bothers me is that they are appearing
> > from top to bottom in a random order.
>
> I start them from .xsession, which is almost exactly the same in funtion
> as .xinitrc, except that it's called from kdm/gdm/xdm. To force the
> order I want the apps started in, I use `sleep' to specify a delay, like
> so:
>
> sleep 2 && bbpager -w &
> sleep 4 && bbkeys -w -t &
> sleep 6 && ...
I think
sleep 2 && exec bbpager -w &
sleep 4 && exec bbkeys -w -t &
sleep 6 && exec ...
is a slightly better way since its nicer to your memory resources.
>
> And so forth. Granted, it takes four seconds for bbkeys to start, but I
> consider that a small price to pay. You may have to tweak the sleep
> times, since some apps need more time to initialize than others.
>
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