[kde-linux] Execute at login for KDE only

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 17:17:06 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Dale <rdalek1967 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    If I wanted to run xset when only when logging into KDE, but not
>> for other environments like razor or fluxbox, how would I do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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>
> I think this is what you want.  Go into System Settings then at the
> bottom click on Startup and Shutdown.  Autostart should be highlighted
> on the left and you can add scripts and such from there.
>
> I'm on Gentoo Linux and KDE 4.9.1.  When I last had to use this, I had
> one that ran a xset command on login then reset it when logging out with
> another script.
>
> Dale

Thanks Dale. That seemed to have worked. Now after logging into KDE I
have DPMS disabled which makes watching long videos while I'm working
on another machine nice.

I don't see how to undo this command on log out (i.e. - xset +dpms)
but at least for now it's manageable.

Thanks,
Mark



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