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Programmer Humor @programming.dev bleistift2 @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

Autostart in Linux Mint

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What are you using as a Desktop Environment? Certain with DEs the Autostart programs need to be added in the config file.
- Cinnamon.
  
  Which config file?
  
  According to the Arch Wiki you need to place the .desktop file in:
  
  ~/.config/autostart/*****.desktop
  
  You also need to add the following line to the .desktop file:
  
  X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
  
  But that's probably the hard way to do it, I think the settings panel should also have a Startup Application tab.
  
  Thanks for looking that up. That’s where my desktop file is located. And it has the X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true line. The settings panel does have a Startup Application tab, and that’s what I used. It created the .desktop file in the appropriate location.
  
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  Check your journald and/or make your script log it's actions.
  
  Script > ~/script.log
  
  Thank for your help. Upon looking at it again I noticed the one filepath that relied on my profile being loaded. Corrected that. Works now.
  
  Trés stupide

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