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I use xbindkeys for managing my hotkeys in Gnome 3 but it doesn't have a daemon so I added it to .xinitrc. 

~$ cat .xinitrc 
ck-launch-session gnome-session
nohup xbindkeys &

Strangely, this does not work at all. I still have to manually start xbindkeys every time I boot. What am I doing wrong here?

My system:

~$ uname -a
Linux [...] 3.0.28-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 16 21:05:30 CEST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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To have xbindkeys running in your Gnome 3 environment you should run gnome-session-properties and add xbindkeys there. After that just log out and log in again.

(note please, that your ~/.xbindkeysrc should contain at least 1 command to let xbindkeys demonize)

Anyway, it is not a good idea to run it from .xinitrc, you probably should avoid that. Simply - .xinitrc it is a shell script => sequence of commands you are going to run one by one. So your xbindkeys will not run until your previous command will not exit (in your example it is ck-launch-session gnome-session

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In sh scripts, including .xinitrc, all commands are run serially by default – nohup xbindkeys is not considered until gnome-session exits. Swapping the lines should work (although nohup is useless here).

However, it is better to run xbindkeys from GNOME session, rather than .xinitrc; otherwise programs started using keybindings will break when they attempt to do certain privileged operations (those that are controlled by polkit & ConsoleKit). Add xbindkeys to gnome-session-properties instead.

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