Executing a program before starting KDE

[hord45]

Hello,

I'm used to unlock my encrypted TrueCrypt volumes before logging in.
I made this by putting

truecrypt /dev/xxx /mountpoint

into the Xstartup file of KDE. It worked very well with 8.04 and KDE35.

But now with KDE4, it doesn't show the truecrypt dialog anymore after logging in (and before starting KDE), which is really annoying...
I put the line in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xstartup. I put a line in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup to lock the volume, when I log off, which works.

Does anyone know, it this works another way now with KDE4?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

[kevinc]

Re: Executing a program before starting KDE

It looks like what you are doing should work. What version of Truecrypt are you using, 6.1a?
Did you install Truecrypt from the Ubuntu repositories or from the Truecrypt site using dpkg?

Have you considered using dm-crypt instead of Truecypt, as dm-crypt is built into the 2.6 kernel and works very well? I've used both truecrypt (to help others using Windows) and dm-crypt with Kubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 and I think 7.10 (also Debian Etch).

[hord45]

Re: Executing a program before starting KDE

I'm using the TrueCrypt 6.1a deb from the truecrypt website. I used the same source for 8.04.

I'm also using Windows from time to time, so dm-crypt is not really an option...

[kevinc]

Re: Executing a program before starting KDE

Imho what you are doing should work. I looked at the README, it mentions
genkdmconf --help but that didn't say much.

It must be something else that changed from KDE 3.5 to 4.1
Hopefully someone else will have a solution. Sorry.