Need Help: Autostart Program in GUI (Linux FC 6)

SlayerOfHellWyrm · August 9, 2015

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.