No, no luck there, either. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bryce Harrington <<a href="mailto:bryce@canonical.com">bryce@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:14:14PM -0500, Jonathan Schuster wrote: > I'm having some problems getting my composite manager (cairo-compmgr) to > start up with X when using LightDM. The Arch wiki recommends putting it in > .xinitrc (<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cairo_Compmgr#Configuration" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cairo_Compmgr#Configuration</a>), > but neither that nor .xsession seem to run when I log in. What's the > recommend way to start a program when X starts when using LightDM? </div>Does ~/.xprofile work? I don't know why .xinitrc and .xsession don't work (or why we have three files purporting to do the same thing...) Bryce </blockquote></div>