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Ability to run a command before other autostarted commands and applications o...
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-session
Component:
General

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Description Jarno Suni 2009-01-18 12:21:52 CET
User may want to run e.g. screen lock (if he/she uses automatic login or timed automatic login). That should be run before starting other applications in user interface.
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-01-18 19:55:15 CET
If the user is using auto-login, I doubt they're concerned enough about security to care whether the screen locker comes up before or after the rest of their desktop.  There's no standard for this, and I don't feel like adding non-standard extensions to the freedesktop autostart spec to do this.
Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-01-18 19:56:52 CET
Whoops, wrong resolution.
Comment 3 Jarno Suni 2009-02-10 09:13:47 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
> If the user is using auto-login, I doubt they're concerned enough about
> security to care whether the screen locker comes up before or after the rest of
> their desktop. 

That is just your guess. There are bug reports about being able to lock screen in startup against GDM: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469571

> There's no standard for this, and I don't feel like adding
> non-standard extensions to the freedesktop autostart spec to do this.

Currently some commands, such as starting a screensaver daemon, are run in xfce4's xinitrc. I suppose that is the script to customize, it you want to run something before autostarted applications. (See startxfce4 script about different possible locations of xinitrc script.)

Bug #4825

Reported by:
Jarno Suni
Reported on: 2009-01-18
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Assignee:
Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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Version

Version:
4.5.91 (4.6 beta 1)

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