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.
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.
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(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.)