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Autostart programs in Ubuntu

Date: August 9, 2007. Categories: tips and ubuntu.

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Ubuntu newbies sometimes ask how to add certain program into startup or autostart. Actually it usually happens with ex-Windows users ;)

Answer: To make program start just after user logins Gnome, go to "System" menu, then choose "Preferences" and select "Sessions":

gnome sessions

Then press button "Add", type application name, command to start it (it’s location like /usr/sbin/local/liferea), and press "Ok" and then "Close". After next login to Gnome application will start. It works with any Linux distro running Gnome as Desktop manager.

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  1. 1 Gustav Bodenäs
    Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Thanks, really helped :)

  2. 2 knicksdefense
    Apr 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    I got all the way to the last step, but how do you find out the location of the program?

    i know it was only an example, but I can't find it in /usr/sbin/…

  3. 3 knicksdefense
    Apr 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    i should say, how do you find out the location of klipper in gnome?

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