Need to autorun some xset commands in LXDE [SOLVED]

audiodef · Last edited by audiodef on Fri May 31, 2013 3:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

I need to put

Jaglover · Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:45 pm Post subject:

~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

If my memory serves me correctly and Openbox is default WM for LXDE.
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The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

Good memory, just one slight error. The path should not include the ".sh" at the end. The file should exist and have comments already.
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Knute · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Fargo, ND

The other file that you were looking for was ~/.Xresources.

From a quick search on google, that file is apparently depreciated now, but it was used by login managers, much like startx does with .xinitrc.

At one point, I had one of those files that I maintained, and the other was a link.

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audiodef · Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 3:55 pm Post subject:

~/.config/openbox/autostart didn't exist on my system, so I created the file and did chmod +x on it. The file contains:

Jaglover · Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 8:36 pm Post subject:

Well, the link for Openbox is here: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart
It seems .sh has been dropped as Doctor mentioned ... another question is how LXDE is using Openbox ... maybe this helps http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession#Automatically_start_some_applications_on_login
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Logicien · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 2:23 am Post subject:

It can be hard to know where your xset commands are changed in Lxde startup. It can come from the Xdg stuff that is started with a lot of X clients. It can come from your Session parameters/Autostart applications in the Preferences menu of Lxde. I have disabled most of the things that Lxde can start with itself there.

I setup a couple of xset commands in my .xinitrc like 'xset -dpms'. An 'xset q' after Lxde is started say that DPMS is disabled. Note that if you use Openbox to execute your commands, you cannot change the window manager of Lxde, for example Compiz like I do, and keep your commands executes.

You can create a script that you can use to execute your commands and finish it with the window manager you want to use with Lxde and put the script path in the Preferences/Session parameters/Advanced options/Window manager. Just hope that your script will be execute at the end of Lxde startup.

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audiodef · Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the replies.

What ended up working was creating an autostart file in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE.
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