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You can make some applications or windows start up automatically when you log in.
To customize the choice of applications that come up automatically when you log in, you can create a .xrc file in your home directory. Once you create this file, the session manager will ignore the system DefaultClients file. This file just contains UNIX commands, so its format is simple.
A sample .xrc file might look like this:
#!/usr/interp/bash
. /usrl/local/lib/X11/defaults/DefaultClients
xterm -title `hostname` -n `hostname` -geometry +0+0 -sb -sl 512 &
The first line indicates that bash commands will be used in this file. The second reads the DefaultClients file, which would otherwise be ignored. The third line starts up a UNIX window in the upper left-hand corner.
Put commands like xbiff and run_component in the background with the & symbol so that they start up concurrently. Otherwise you might have trouble with the login process.
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Please send comments and suggestions to consult@rpi.edu