GNOME startup applications

[Novabox]

I'm looking to find a way to execute certain commands (such as Gaim, my email program, etc) automatically when I log into GNOME (similarly to putting shortcuts in the "startup" folder of the Windows start menu). I assume there's a file in one of the ".gnome*" directories in my home directory that will do this, but I can't seem to find it. Any ideas? Thanks.

[busa_blade]

What distro are you using?

[theevilblah]

go to Settings > Gnome Control Center

Scroll down and select "Session Properties and Startup"

Click on the Startup Programs tab

Click add


Thats all

[MMA]

one way people say you can do that is to use ~/.xsession, but it doesn't seem to work with GDM. So i like to make a seperate script that is help at: ~/Startup or sothing like that and then edit script in GDM, i think its held here: /etc/X11/gdm/Session/

these files are the ones used to start the WM, when your in GDM. so if you have stuff like "KDE", "Gnome", "fluxbox" in GDM as options for choosing the right WM. There should be one script for each. So just edit the file and and put the command: ~/Startup &

right at the right of the files. so that it executes this file then runs the WM.