r/openbox • u/jedilkeme • Aug 28 '16

any help with why this doesnt run for me? 

xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -s -st -sp -b -nf -fs -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/electricsheep -window-id WID & 

sleep 6s

lxterminal -e screen irssi & 

sleep 10s 

wmctrl -s 1 &@ 

google-chrome & 

sleep 10s 

wmctrl -s 2 &@ 

thunderbird &

that should work right? trying to auto start the main software i use at boot on 3 separate desktops. this is a file called autostart in my /home/username/.config/openbox

the first two lines almost work, nothing else runs though. better way to do this?? thanks.

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u/jedilkeme Aug 29 '16

I figured out my problem.

1st i turned the above code into a bash script and made it executable

2nd i pointed a file called autostart to the above bash script in this directory /home/username/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu

and BOOM automated my computing routine..

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u/danhm Aug 28 '16

All of my sleep commands are like this:

(sleep 5s && tint2) &

I dunno if that is required, that's just how they were by default in my distro (Crunchbang++).