Adding Startup Apps in Kubuntu

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Aug 16 18:23:52 UTC 2008


Michael Haney wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> That depends on your login name. If your login is "michael" it would
>> be "/home/michael/.kde/Autostart". As .kde is a hidden folder, you should
>> enable the display of hidden files, if you search for it using a file
>> manager. Whenver you see a path starting with "~/", replace that with
>> your home folder which would be "/home/michael/" in the example above.
>>
> 
> Thank you.  Its been like 10 years since I've messed around with
> Linux.  KDE is SO different now from what I remember it on Red Hat
> back in the day.  Things are coming back to me but not enough and so
> much has changed that much of what I did know is now obsolete.  Linux
> has certain evolved a great deal since the last time I dabbled with
> it.

That's ridiculous.  First, while Nils said to replace "~/", you only need to
do it in your head.  It's been a part of Unix since, if not the very
earliest version, at least since the '80s.  
-- 
derek





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