samwise wrote:
Do you mean you want a text message displayed when you SSH or log into the box via a command line? Or that you want a text file to be opened up when you login to a desktop environment? If the latter, which?
You can change the message displayed when you login to the console quite easily, or you could put something into ~/.kde/Autostart if you wanted to load something when you login to KDE, for instance. Gnome has a similar configuration option to allow you to load a program on login, IIRC.
Depends entirely on what you want ...
Laptop and big lump open in Gnome, under Debian.
Eee opens in Asus Tellytubbies desktop.
ATM I don't play with consoles on starting-up.