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scejja1

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Registered: 2015-12-27

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[Solved] Create autostart desktop file in 'on the fly' xfce session

I'm trying to make a live usb which runs an interactive shell script when booting. I'm using Ubuntu Customization Kit (uck), xubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-i386.iso and syslinux.

In this thread I posted this question, but no answer yet.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/705677/i … ive-cd-usb

Trying to solve this from xfce, I wonder if is possible to create a desktop file in /home/xubuntu/.config/autostart/ folder before desktop files inside it are executed in xfce session. Maybe if I create the desktop file just after live xfce session has been created. But I do not know in which file I should do it (~/.bashr, /etc/rc.local, ...)

Any help please? Thanks in advance.

sixsixfive

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Re: [Solved] Create autostart desktop file in 'on the fly' xfce session

even if xfce4-terminal claims to be xterm compatible it isnt like all other libvte based terms! so you have to lauch a shell first eg xfce4-terminal -e /bin/sh $yourscript

but adding stuff to autostart won't probably work since afaik autostart executes just those *.desktop files and will not wait so you better add it as a boot script eg in init5 or if user specific add/change the login commad of your display-manager or by adding it to the top of the xfce4-session script eg: sh $yourscript &&

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scejja1

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Re: [Solved] Create autostart desktop file in 'on the fly' xfce session

Great!, if I create the file before session is started, it works.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/705677/i … ive-cd-usb

Thanks a lot