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From: stodghil@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Paul Stodghill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Starting up applications automatically
Summary: How do I start applications automatically?
Keywords: workspace login
Message-ID: <25350@cornell.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 19:40:45 GMT
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Reply-To: stodghil@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Paul Stodghill)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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Recently someone posted a hack which will give a user program control before
the Workspace Manager starts. What I want to do is get control afterwards
so that I can start a bunch of windows whenever I log in (put a window
for the VAX here, and a window for Emacs there,...). I've tried RTFM
but I can't find anything that helps.

Is there some startup or initialization file that the Workspace Manager
looks for? If not, is there some hack which will let me start up a
bunch of windows like this? Hacking the defaults database doesn't sound
too appetizing, because I don't want this to happen to just anybody (reads,
it's a public machine).