[Fluxbox] How do I load an app at startup under root?

[fightingspirit]

I want to load conky as root at startup. The problem is that when I run it as a normal user, there's a weird bug where all this stuff shows up that I already edited out of the config file. But when I run conky as root, it runs displaying how I configured it in the conky.conf file.

In simple terms, how do I run an app at startup as root?

In the startup config file, I already tried

Code:

conky -root &

and it doesn't even start.

When I put in

Code:

conky &

it runs as if I ran it as a normal user and all the bugs display.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

[bigpaws]

Why do you need this run as root?

Bigpaws

[lagagnon]

Don't run it as root. What conky file did you edit, because you should have copied it to your ~/.conkrc file. Did you do that?

To get it to load in fluxbox add conky to the ~/.fluxbox/apps file or the startup file as explained here:
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Editing_the_startup_file

[fightingspirit]

Fixed conky, it works right without having to use root... but I still want to know how to run things at startup as root.

For example, I need to run the modprobe command

Code:

modprobe ndiswrapper

to get my wireless card working, but that needs to be run under root in order to work...

Any suggestions?

[vector]

run vlwifi from vasm or vasmcc should get your wireless working.............
hth
vec

[wcs]

If you absolutely need to, you can put things at the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local to be run at boot.

[fightingspirit]

Thanks for all the help.