Adding Startup Apps in Kubuntu

[James Takac]

Hi Derek

On Sunday 17 August 2008 04:21:12 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Mumia W.
> >
> >> Place your startup scripts into the ~/.kde/Autostart folder.
> >
> > As usual, another cryptic answer from this group.  Where exactly is
> > that folder?  I've spent about 2 hours looking for it already.
>
> How can an absolutely literally correct answer be called "cryptic"?  If you
> expect help, you should really try to be less dismissive when you _get_
> help.
>
> As you were told, it's in ~/.kde/Autostart.  How can you possibly spend two
> hours looking for it?
>
> derek at bella:~$ ls ~/.kde/Autostart
> derek at bella:~$ ls ~/.kde/Autostart -la
> total 12
> drwx------ 2 derek derek   32 2008-05-08 10:23 .
> drwxrwx--- 6 derek derek 4096 2007-05-02 20:14 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 derek derek 1990 2008-05-06 09:10 .directory
>
> It's possible that the Autostart directory doesn't exist by default.  So
> create it.
> --
> derek


It's also possible that he doesn't know the .kde folder is a hidden folder and 
so if he's searching via the file manager he needs to set it to show hidden 
files. As I use gnome and nautilus I'm not exactly sure where to enable that 
setting but would guess 

View --> Show Hidden

or something like that

Maybe he also doesn't know the ~/ is short for the /home/username directory?

I can't see from the above what he tried in order to look for it so I have to 
guess myself

James