execute terminal command at startup

**thorn** · 07-09-2010

i'm trying to automate terminal commands to execute at startup (rc5)

one is a background process:

Code:

xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1

the other is a gui application:

Code:

/home/labr/apps/gmail-notify/notifier.py

i placed these commands in /etc/rc.local but does nothing.

**running fedora 13 Gnome

**Sscheme** · 07-10-2010

Why don't you try to simply add your applications to System->Preferences->Startup Applications

**thorn** · 07-08-2011

to answer my own question,

i was looking for 'chkconfig --add /home/labr/apps/gmail-notify/notifier.py'

and i should have created a bash script:

Code:

touch xinput.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#xinput.sh

xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1
fi

Code:

chmod +x touch.sh

then

Code:

 chkconfig --add /path/to/xinput.sh