Lubuntu: control startup applications/Sessions? + hotkeys?

[Pott]

Hey all,

I just installed Lubuntu Lucid 10.04 beta on my Acer A1 (512MB RAM, Atom N270, 8GB SSD) dual booting with Crunchbang.

I LOVE the concept. It's FAST, boots up in 32seconds till wireless, and there's no lag.

But I have a few issues with it:

1) Hotkeys don't work except a very few like touchpad on/off. No volume mute, up/down etc... I never use sleep or suspend (the PC ) so I don't know about these

2) I can't configure autostart applications: there is no autostart file in ~/.config./autostart and no GUI app for this. I want to add Conky + xbindkeys (which I could also use to get my hotkeys running I guess)

3) Is there a sound manager I could download? I know this is a beta so it doesn't have ALL the options, but I'd like something like the one found in Crunchbang (Alsa controlled by the volwheel panel app) to control my mic input/volume output etc... right now all we can control is the volume level

4) I can't get conky working :s Not sure why not... I have a good config which I use on my other PC, and I do a conky -c /filepath to conkyrc but it doesn't appear at all... could be a Beta bug, could be doing it wrong (much more likely!) EDIT: it's up! Messed around with the window settings. I just need to get it started at startup now...

5) Is there anyway to get the menu appear on a Desktop right click?

Otherwise by applying a few Karmic tweaks I managed to get both SD slots hot swappable and working, and everything seems to work ok. Webcam is recognized, I'll use Skype to test the mic. But I'm really happy with this so far.

[Pott]

Alright!

I found out how to add startup applications and added xbindkeys/the conky script to it. So all's good on this.

I still need to configure the hotkeys and find out how to get the sound controls up.

Some issues with Lubuntu:

Double click doesn't seem to open files. Click + enter doesn't either. You need to right click and select what you want to edit the file with to get there.

A lot of the setup windows are a lot bigger than the screen and you can't access all the buttons. Since I use a netbook and am often without a mouse, moving the windows using alt + click is a little frustrating.

[tranduyhung]

Oh, please tell me how you add startup application, I just want to adjust my screen brightness with xgammar command.

[Marty Jack]

Oh, please tell me how you add startup application, I just want to adjust my screen brightness with xgammar command.

Add whatever initialization commands you want to run when you log in to /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

(There is another way to do it with a .desktop file, but this is simpler for something like this.)

Leave off the "@" because that tells lxsession to restart the command if it exits, which you do not want to have happen for this case.

[tranduyhung]

Thank you Marty very much! It works perfectly.