Re: [Firestarter-user] Community update (Was: Alternativeto firestarter?)

[Jack B. <jb...@sh...>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:47:35PM +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, John Emmas wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "J.O. Aho" <tr...@in...>
> >>
<snip> 
> 
> In all desktop environments I have seen, you can include programs to be 
> started during the startup of the environment. Gnome2 uses some frontend 
> that you can add programs to be started when you login, with other words, 
> you do it once and all times you login, it will be started.
> If you use KDE, you have ~/.kde/Autostart where you can place 
> scriptes, programs or symlinks to start programs automatically at login 
> time.
<snip>

The Gnome equivalent is System->Sessions->Startup programs. I have been
using Firestarter for as long as I can remember as well, going back almost
to the beginning of FS. It is still on my Ubuntu boxes. It could have
better facilities to deal with more difficult network setups but it serves
its purpose well. 

Jack