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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Application Autostart Order

I have noticed that the Application Autostart tab found in the Session and Startup utility in Settings does not display a way to rearrange the order of program startups.

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,190

Re: Application Autostart Order

It doesn't appear that there is any way to guarantee the order of autostart items. If you:

export XFSM_VERBOSE=1

...in an environment file (I use /etc/profile.d/xfce.sh), you'll get an ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log file. You can see that start order in this log file.

You're best bet would be to add some extra logic in each of the .desktop files to ensure order (either sleep commands or pgrep in a 'while true' loop to ensure that the previous one is running).

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KitchM

Member

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Re: Application Autostart Order

Looks complex.  Perhaps we need another feature request.