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GenuineAdvantage:
And I mean in the old version, not in the 4.4beta1. Any seasoned tip to get this done easily?

Or maybe even on Fluxbox? I'd be willing to try getting around the bugs I have with it if I could do this cleanly.

And what I mean by startup is having them start at login automatically, of course.

piratePenguin:
When X11 starts under your username it runs whatever is in ~/.xinitrc
Add e.g. 'firefox &' to (the end of) that file and firefox will start with X11 after any WM.

H_TeXMeX_H:
For fluxbox there is a startup script in ~/.fluxbox (or in other words ~/.fluxbox/startup), do the same thing piratePenguin says except you can put the startup entries in there instead of in ~/.xinitrc. The things you put in there will only start with fluxbox though ... so use /.xinitrc if you want them to start with all your window managers.

GenuineAdvantage:
Saving the session starts up some things, like gkrellm, but not others. I'm trying to startup gdesklets. Thanks for the tips but I've already tried all this. I've tried everything suggested to me and nothing works for me for some reason. And I don't have a .xinitrc in the home dir. Creating it doesn't work either.

H_TeXMeX_H:
That's strange ... so if your run gdesklets in a terminal it runs just fine ? In the startup script it should be "gdesklets &". What distro are you running ? It shouldn't matter too much unless it's ubuntu ... ubuntu likes to do things differently sometimes and put things in different places than usual.

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