Help With Startup Apps

[skaterkid]

Ok I am trying to find the text file that holds the values for the programs that start up when the system boots, the values that are listed under Gnome control center -> sessions -> start up programs. I need to know where they are listed for both administrator/root and user accounts and when I change them they will not start on boot right?

[flebber]

The programs are listed in the directory

/etc/init.d

.

Its more interesting to know what you are wanting to do.

[skaterkid]

I have a program that keeps running and messing my GUI up on my root account at start up. So I need to edit this file from my user account so it wont start on stat up. Thanks for the help I will try that file later today.

[skaterkid]

Also which file in init.d contains the list of the programs, there are too many for me to check everyone.

[gogalthorp]

I believe /etc/init.d/ is for system startup. Are you wanting system startup or gnome startup?? Also there is general gnome startup ie all users get this and user startup that is just for the current user.

It might help if you tell use the program you suspect is causing the problem.

[skaterkid]

I am looking for Gnome startup for specific users. The program is beryl, I put beryl, beryl manager and emerald themes in my sessions -> startup programs and I accidentally switched it to run compiz from the beryl manager menu which was not installed. Therefore every time I go into my root account my screen goes white because it is trying to run my desktop off a program that isn't supported by my system. So despite trying to use the ctrl + alt + F1 and kill all -9 compiz approach to shutting compiz down, which for some reason doesn't work I find it would be easier to just edit my sessions -> startup programs text document so that beryl manager will not run. Thats my hole problem all I need to know is where that text document is stored.

[gogalthorp]

Probably the easiest way is to create a new user move and change ownership (chown) of any personal files. You can run yast as root from a console to create a new user. Or you could use yast to remove the beryl and emerald packages and start again.

These packages load early on the X startup for the GUI.

PS you must be ROOT!!!

[skaterkid]

Ok I got rid of beryl through Yast2, but for some reason there are still the same settings when I run beryl in my root account. Where in the beryl manager settings can I change it so it runs beryl for my desktop effects and not compiz? Before I would left click on the icon in my tool bar but I can't run beryl now because the settings are the same and my screen will go white.

[gogalthorp]

Why are you running beryl in root???

[skaterkid]

Because I hate running my user account. I pretty much am always in root because than I don't run into any user accessibility issues when opening or running files. And when I installed beryl a lot of the commands/packages needed to be run or installed in root so it was only natural that I would first test it out in my root account and not my user account.