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was mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

View/control startup applications.

Small, concise, full-featured and overall incredible. This is an essential part of my toolkit.

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X > Xmodmap >

~/.Xmodmap

Xmodmap's keyboard mapping configuration.


gMPlayer example

This works right away for gMPlayer.

! https://wiki.xfce.org/faq
! All possible keysyms can be found in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or 
! /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB. To ensure that the .Xmodmap file is loaded 
! when you start Xfce add /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap to your 
! .xinitrc or .xprofile file. When you start the shortcut editor the 
! assigned keysyms should show up when you press one of your multimedia 
! keys. Now it is possible to assign a command to them. 

! Add /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap to your .xinitrc or .xprofile

! Dell multimedia keyboard:
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
! Volume control knob
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
! note key
keycode 129 = XF86AudioMedia

! The application keys are:
! 234 233 232 231 178 236 198 161
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Software > startup > X >

There are several pages for it, but I have this one working:
https://github.com/dlitz/xtoolwait

Xtoolwait notably decreases the startup time of an X session by reducing the load on the X server and Linux.

It starts an X client in the background, waits for a window to be mapped on the root window, and then exits. It can improve performance for users who start a bunch of X clients automatically (for example, xterm, xlock, xconsole, whatever) when the X session starts.



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