Xfce Diary

Friday, July 15, 2005

Autostart Editor

Since we're now using desktop files instead of arbitrary scripts or symlinks, it is pretty easy to make the list of autostarted applications editable through a simple user interface. And so here's xfce4-autostart-editor:

xfce4-autostart-editor is now part of xfce4-session (trunk, rev 16232). I'm looking for an icon - or atleast an idea about how such an icon could look like - for this tool (unfortunately Francois is away).

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 00:37

6 Comments:

  • Is there any reasonable way, from a UI point of view, to merge this with the UI for deleting apps from the managed session, disabling the panel, and the like?

    By Blogger Erik, at 15/7/05 02:12  

  • Maybe something like this:

    Xfce Desktop
    [ ] Panel (xfce4-panel)
    [x] Desktop manager (xfdesktop)
    [x] Window manager (xfwm4)

    Managed applications
    [x] Terminal
    [x] ...

    Unmanaged applications
    [x] firefox
    [x] thunderbird
    [x] ...

    By Anonymous Jasper, at 15/7/05 08:24  

  • Yep, thats the idea, once xfce4-session supports D-BUS (maybe Xfce 4.4, but most probably 4.6).

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 15/7/05 11:06  

  • How autostarted firewall as the root ??

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/2/07 22:34  

  • Big problem I found with this applet is that once an item has been created, there is no way (that I can find) in which you can tell what it actually does, or debug it if it doesn't work as expected.

    ~Anteaus.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/9/07 21:32  

  • Also no GUI way to edit/modify an entry. Must remove then create again?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 15/2/08 01:29  

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