Trying to run scripts on login without success

contraversy · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2012 Posts: 39

Hello,

I am wanting to run my ~/.fehbg and xrdb .Xresources on login, so my terminal and wallpaper settings are done automatically. My script runs fine, but no matter where i try to run the script from, I can't get it to run on login.

I have tried using local.d/ and profile.d/ as well as adding them to bashrc and bash_profile

I have found SEVERAL resources/threads while searching on here, but none of the methods I have found seem to help me. Can anyone point me to the right place?

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:37 pm Post subject:

Have you tried ~/.xsession? If you are logging in using a display manager you should be able to launch them from ~/.xsession (see https://archive.org/details/xwindowsystemadm08muimiss/page/14 for details).
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 14917

How do you log in? Do you start at a text console, then run startx? Do you use a display manager? If yes, which one? For a startx user, I would recommend ~/.xinitrc.