[kde-linux] launching apss on KDE startup

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Fri May 14 17:15:53 UTC 2010


On Friday, 2010-05-14, Dale wrote:
> Zorael wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Werner Joss
> > 
> > <werner at hoernerfranzracing.de>  wrote:
> >> Am Friday 14 May 2010 16:06:15 schrieb Pablo Sanchez:
> >>>> I can't find in the documentation how to launch specific KDE apps
> >>>> automatically after KDE starts up.
> >>>> Can someone tell how to do this?
> >>> 
> >>> It's very easy.  I plop shell scripts in `~/.kde/Autostart'  If
> >>> you're using KDE 4, `~/.kde4/Autostart'
> >>> 
> >>> Some of my shell scripts start GUI applications (which minimize on
> >>> start) or background goodies (e.g. `unclutter')
> >> 
> >> in addition, you can also just copy desktop files (=the icons on your
> >> desktop) to ~/.kde/Autostart.
> > 
> > ...as well as place symbolic links there. (Or hard links, for that
> > matter.)
> > 
> > 
> > JR
> 
> There is also a GUI way of doing this as well.  It's under the Advanced
> tab and named . . . Autostart.  ;-)
> 
> It also allows you to enable/disable the scripts as well.

And yet another method is to save the session as it is at a certain point, and 
configure the session manager to start with manually saved sessions.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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