Adding Startup Apps in Kubuntu

Mumia W. paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 15 15:15:58 UTC 2008


On 08/15/2008 05:52 AM, Michael Haney wrote:
> Well, I'm using Kubuntu now.  Not the KDE4 Remix version but the 
> regular Kubuntu 8.04 version.  At least in this version I can tell 
> XWindows what kind of monitor I have so the Nvidia drivers don't limit 
> me to 640x480 with now elegant and simple way to change such settings.
> 
> The problem I have right now is trying to get a program launch when I 
> login.  Its the experimental Compiz Fusion engine for KDE which allows 
> Kubuntu to use some of the Desktop Effects of Gnome.  Right now I have 
> to manually start this component and its got no settings for having it 
> start at login or startup.  How can I have this automatically start if 
> it doesn't have option to turn on to do this?  I tried to find a way 
> to add startup programs but couldn't find it.  Can someone help me?
> 

Place your startup scripts into the ~/.kde/Autostart folder.






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