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Autostart in Linux Mint (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you using as a Desktop Environment? Certain with DEs the Autostart programs need to be added in the config file.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cinnamon.

Which config file?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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Check your journald and/or make your script log it's actions.

Script > ~/script.log

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.

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