2 Start X program in terminal at boot without x desktop
Mehran Dehghanian edited this page 4 years ago

The simplest method is just to pass an argument to startx. This is often used to test out a new window manager, e.g.

startx /usr/bin/twm

So, you should be able to do:

startx /path/to/your/program

Note: I haven't tested this in a while. It used to work, back in the good old days before Linux decided to try to become Windows.

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