[K12OSN] Gnome startup programs

[Petre Scheie]

Do you think the problem is with gnome startup or with the vanguard_start.sh 
script?  In other words, what happens if you have an icon on the desktop or menu 
or wherever, that calls your script?  Does the browser launch consistently?  If 
not, then it sounds like something is amiss with the script.  Likewise, if you 
put, say, the/usr/bin/mozilla script into gnome's Startup Programs tab, does it 
work consistently?  How about a script that launches, say, xclock or something 
else really simple?  If not, then the problem sounds gnome-related.  So, it's 
not clear to me, yet, exactly where the problem is.

Or perhaps you've already determined that the vanguard_start.sh script is okay, 
and the failure is always with gnome launching it on startup?

Petre

Dan Young wrote:
> I'm having decidedly mixed results getting a program to start
> consistently from the Gnome Session panel's "Startup Programs" tab. The
> program is a shell script which creates a new Phoenix
> (Firebird/Firefox/Mozilla/whatever) profile and starts Phoenix with it.
> This is for a kiosk-style setup. The script called from Startup Programs
> is something like:
> 
> sh /opt/vanguard/vanguard_start.sh -CreateProfile vanguard;
> sh /opt/vanguard/vanguard_start.sh -P vanguard -chrome \
> chrome://vanguard/content/ &
> 
> The /opt/vanguard/vanguard_start.sh script is nominally similar to the
> /usr/bin/mozilla script, i.e. it "will set up all of the environment
> voodoo needed to make mozilla work."
> 
> As is, it only starts the browser maybe 1 out of 3 logins. Any thoughts?
> 
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District
> 
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