[ale] run app from *dm?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Mar 19 19:42:35 EST 2004


Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"James" == James P Kinney, <James> writes:
> 
> 
>     James> I would like to run gok (gnome onscreen keyboard) in the
>     James> GDM screen. I need a pickboard to log in with. It looks
>     James> like the other stuff visible are not so much applications
>     James> as settings.
> 
> On a RedHat-ish box GDM uses the xdm /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to
> determine what to run when starting up the server for display :0.
> Just find the analogue (maybe using xdm, might be in the xinit script)
> and add a line starting gok to that.

Depending on your distro, it may be different, but I suspect you'll be 
looking from something like:

/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Init/Default

at least that's what it is on SuSE.


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