

So I am back at the beginning and start throwing coins in the air and waiting for the outcome.

Tray applications for example seem to have a graphical component so I would consider those applications graphical applications and would assume I need an graphical session running but as some of you said, I don't. Lets start all the applications as early as possible. But I don't know what I want in this regards. So let us assume I would like to use only the ~/.xinitrc (in case this is possible, which I don't know yet) - since you told me that there are applications I want to start before my window manager starts and some which I would like to get started later on.

But I still don't know how to write a proper startup file and how to decide for certain applications which startup methods to use.
