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I use xfce4 as my desktop environment, running on a Gentoo box. I want to start the pulseaudio server when I login. In general, how do I get a script to run as soon as I login to xfce, and how do I get a script to run when I logout?
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I use xfce4 as my desktop environment, running on a Gentoo box. I want to start the pulseaudio server when I login. In general, how do I get a script to run as soon as I login to xfce, and how do I get a script to run when I logout?
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If you have root access, you can always edit the startxfce4 script. According to the documentation:
startxfce4
The startxfce4 is a convenient script to start an Xfce 4 session from the console. It will give you a session with a taskbar and a panel and with the desktop manager and window manager running.
All programs, or symbolic links to programs, in ~/Desktop/Autostart/ will be run by startxfce4 on startup.
To customize the behaviour of startxfce4, copy the file ${sysconfdir}/xfce4/xinitrc to your personal ~/.config/xfce4/ directory and edit that file. If you install from source, ${sysconfdir} defaults to /usr/local/etc; for binary packages it is often set to /etc.
With the inclusion of a session manager in Xfce 4.2, the preferred way to change startup behaviour is by using the "Save session" option in the logout dialog.
Or you can use the xfce4-autostart-editor
program.
For the logout part, see the http://wiki.xfce.org/tips page for the personal logout script.
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You may want to check out the following which enables you to play login and logout sounds in Ubuntu xfce4.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918649
Probably the simplest solution I have seen.
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Welcome to Super User! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
– Canadian Luke – 2012-09-07T23:26:21.3671exactly, Canadian Luke, because right now, "Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance" :-( – djb – 2013-07-23T19:26:45.140
Thanks, I didn't realize that xfce used ~/Desktop/Autostart. – Bkkbrad – 2009-08-22T20:56:02.473