On Debian Lenny with KDE.
I added a command to the bottom of $HOME/.profile to open transmission so my complete .profile looks like this: (everything except the last line is default)
...
# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
transmission-gtk
What happens though is when I log in transmission pops up and the desktop won't load until I close it.
I thought the purpose of $HOME/.profile was to run scripts/programs when a user logs in. Am I misunderstanding its purpose?
transmission-gtk &
. Then the script can finish and continue with your login.