Windows equivalent of 'startup'

[Joel Oliver]

Other simple but overlooked things are not making your custom scripts 
executable:

chmod a+x program.sh

With a symbolic link this isn't needed as long as the target is executable.

I know in gnome the hplip status service taskbar item wouldn't work for 
me giving me problems with running too soon and having it complain that 
the taskbar isn't running. And  and also alltray, a great program to 
drop other programs into the taskbar instead of opening them.  A simple 
hack is to delay these programs with sleep.

So like...

#!/bin/bash
sleep 25
alltray -na /usr/bin/thunderbird

and saving this script and make it executable dropping it into the 
Autostart directory fixed all the problems.  With Gnome  it's in 
System>Preferences>Sessions (Hardy) (or startup applications in 
jaunty)and this launches a program from anywhere so it can point 
directly at the executable, a symlink, or a script that calls the 
executable.  You may have luck 'chaining' the commands on the one line 
avoiding writing a script. (Like  sleep 25 && alltray -na 
/usr/bin/thunderbird)  I think this gave me some problems before so I 
just use a script.


Hope this helps.
Joel.