Need Help Getting Progrram to AutoStart (FC 6)

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

So, long story short, I have an assignment to get a program running on start for all users in cli, or gui. I  have it working via cli, but I cannot get the file to start when in GUI automatically.

 

I need it to start in GUI automatically as well, but cannot get it to.

 

I tried adding it to the autostart section under gnome-session-properties, but it doesn't seem to work, and when I added the lines in /etc/profile I added, to /etc/bashrc so it at least autostarts in a bash window opened in GUI, it causes the VM to halt on boot at udev.

 

File: /usr/bin/phmenu/phmenu

 

Supporting files:

 

in the same /usr/bin/phmenu directory:

phlist1

phoneadd

phonefind

sort_phones

corp_phones

.myfuncs

 

 and a temp directory (/usr/bin/phmenu/tmp)

 

Let me know if you need to know the code of the files, and I can paste it in, but it can also be found in the ends of Chapters 6 and 7 of: Guide to UNIX Using Linux, FOURTH EDITION (ISBN-13: 978-1-4188-3723-5).

 

Basically what I've done so far, is:

 

• Added some lines to /etc/profile to get the file to run at startup for init 3 which works for all users
  • PATH=$PATH:.:/usr/bin/phmenu
  • CLEAR=`clear`
  • export CLEAR
  • . /usr/bin/phmenu/.myfuncs
  • phmenu
• Added the same lines to /etc/bashrc for GUI (startx window bash terminal)
  • Worked, but caused VM to stop loading after udev for all subsequent loads
• Selected phmenu file via gnome-session-properties for autostart
• Tried adding it to /etc/xdg/autostart
  • Don't know how it works, as it appears everything already in there is a directory and not a file

 

Any help would be appreciated!

NOTE: I'm a severe noob with Linux, this is part of an assignment for my second course on it, and my knowledge is limited to what's been taught in the textbook mentioned above.

 

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

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[alpenwasser]

Have you tried using xinitrc?

The global one should be located in

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

or something like that (that's where mine is, I'm using Arch).

Then each user has their own in

~/.xinitrc.

The user ones, when present, will override the global one.

Depending on what sort of program it is, launching it as a deamon might also be

a possibility.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

So, it turns out editing /etc/profile, or /etc/bashrc to add in a line phmenu at the end, to call the script, 'causes the GUI to load to a black screen for everyone, and thus didn't work. I need to figure out how to get phmenu to run automatically now, every time a bash shell is opened, either in init 3, or 5.