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RobF

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 157

[SOLVED] How do I autostart a program on bootup in KDE?

Where do I put commands (e.g. autostart a program) that I want to have automatically executed for a user session on startup in KDE?  I'm looking for a place that would be the equivalent of /etc/rc.local (which is for systemwide autostart) but that would be executed only for the local session, i.e. that does the same thing as running the command from a bash shell as an ordinary user.  I think in Fluxbox this would be ~/.fluxbox/startup.  What does KDE use?

Last edited by RobF (2007-11-30 04:32:43)

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: [SOLVED] How do I autostart a program on bootup in KDE?

~/.kde/Autostart

RobF

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 157

Re: [SOLVED] How do I autostart a program on bootup in KDE?

Yes, I did discover that one way to do that in KDE is to put a tiny shell script (I called it 'startupcommands') in ~/.kde/Autostart that contains the desired command(s).

Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: [SOLVED] How do I autostart a program on bootup in KDE?

I use symbolic links to do the same thing, but I've seen both ways recommended.  It's strange that there isn't a kcontrol panel you can just add apps to, IMO.  Explaining to new users that they have to open a console and type "ln -s `which [app name]` ~/.kde/Autostart" is non-ideal, IMNSHO.  Anyone know of a good GUI for this?

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lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I autostart a program on bootup in KDE?

I've seen some GUI on kde-apps.org.