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[administration][graphics] How to autostart a GUI application

Open LukeShortCloud opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments
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Place the <APPLICATION>.desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ directory. Any user on that system will launch those applications upon login.

Discovered from investigating into this winesapOS issue: https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/issues/242

LukeShortCloud avatar Mar 09 '22 01:03 LukeShortCloud

Or use ~/.config/autostart/ for a per-use desktop application shortcut that will launch.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login

LukeShortCloud avatar Mar 16 '22 21:03 LukeShortCloud

Or a CLI app: https://askubuntu.com/questions/141229/how-to-add-a-shell-script-to-launcher-as-shortcut

LukeShortCloud avatar Jan 08 '24 23:01 LukeShortCloud