Run a script upon entering runlevel 2

[lapidu]

Glad I asked, thanks for the response. Your solution does the job. Good idea looking up LXDE specifically.

The challenge remains open to a direct, universal solution.

The following command will enable any command-line console to launch graphical programs by allowing them to access the appropriate display via x, but the catch is that it must be executed within the graphical environment first; attempting to do so in a console gives a variant 'unable to open display' error. Hence it cannot be usefully included in knoppix.sh.

xhost +local:

Once this is done, you can launch a graphical application from console by specifying the target display. For example, launch an instance of leafpad in default display :0 :

DISPLAY=:0 leafpad

When you switch back to the desktop leafpad will open.