[SOLVED]Problem adding startup commands

I can't seem to have a couple commands starting automatically. I've searched around alot and couldn't find anything helpful eith my issue.
I've been using "gnome-session-properties" and .xinitrc to add these two commands (xbindkeys, and a xinput mapping for my 'weird' acer touchpad/mediakeys) but they do not seem to start with the session. If i put them in in the console everything works fine so it's not an error in them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
PS I read somewhere that shortcuts (as in *.desktop) can be created to get programs starting at boot but since the xinput command is quite long i don't really know if this is the case.
Edit: I'm using GNOME3 with GDM as DE.
Last edited by northerw (2011-07-01 10:37:55)

northerw wrote:Here are the commands i wish to have autostarting:
xinput set-button-map "`xinput list | grep Synaptics | head -1 | grep -o id=.. | tr -d id=`" 1 2 3 17 18 19 20 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
xbindkeys
GDM is running commands it seems, but they are somehow wrong i guess. Is it a typo in the first line? Try running them in the background:
xinput set-button-map "`xinput list | grep Synaptics | head -1 | grep -o id=.. | tr -d id=`" 1 2 3 17 18 19 20 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 &
xbindkeys &
Last edited by roygbiv (2011-06-30 20:34:45)

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