Problems starting xbindkeys at kde's boot

tehmou · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

I have gentoo-sources kernel version 2.6.11-r5, and I'm using KDE 3.3.

Ok, this may seem like a silly question, but I'm lost since I've tried everything I've found on the web. The problem is, I don't know how to load xbindkeys at start up; I've tried putting "xbindkeys" and "xbindkeys &" (to run it in background, don't know if it's required) into several files, including ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, ~/.Xsession (not sure if it's capitalized or not), /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and /etc/X11/xdm/xsession one at a time, and I even make a script called "xbindkeys" that only has the line "xbindkeys" into the ~/.kde/Autostart directory (and tried chmod 755, in addition to chmod 700 and chmod +x that I found on the web, on it in case there was something wrong with permissions.) Nevertheless, my xbindkeys still doesn't load at startup: writing xbindkeys in the console, on the other hand, makes everything works perfect, and also executing the script I made in the Autostart directory. I'm just getting a feeling that kde keeps ignoring all the supposed init files there are... or am I doing something awfully wrong here?

BitJam · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

I have the following script in my ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory:

tehmou · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

BitJam · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

Here is a link that will tell you about #! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang

Headrush · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:51 am Post subject:

When kdm starts it sources the file .xprofile in each users directory.
This file is sourced once, not with every konsole, xterm, etc session.

So place xbindkeys, xmodmap etc commands in ~/.xprofile

Example ~/.xprofile