Re: Running programs at Gnome startup conflicts with splash image

[Takis Diakoumis <takisd alphalink com au>]

this was an old issue... back again is it???

i'm not running 2.6.2... but have a look at this thread...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2004/07/msg00003.html

Takis

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:56, Andrei Badea wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to use the Applications / Desktop Preferences / Advanced / 
> Sessions dialog box (the Startup Programs section) to run GKrellM when I 
> login into Gnome. I put GKrellM on this list with an order of 50 (it is 
> the only program on the list). When I login, the splash image doesn't 
> dissapear as usual, but it stays on the screen until I click it or I 
> close GKrellM. I tried other programs, even Bash scripts, with the same 
> result - the splash image doesn't dissapear. It of course does dissapear 
> when the list of the programs to be run at startup is empty.
> 
> I'm using Gnome 2.6.2 from Debian unstable. Is this a bug or normal 
> behavior? Is there a way to run programs at startup (using the 
> aforementioned dialog box) but having the splash image dissapear after 
> login?
> 
> Thank you for help.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei