General way to autostart my application
Carl Friis-Hansen
ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com
Wed Nov 19 10:46:11 UTC 2008
Roland Turcan wrote:
> Hello ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com!
>
> I need to use a common way for auto starting my application. I found
> out, that gnome and kde don't use the same way for registration an
> application for automatic start after user's login.
If you allow it to be with GUI, then in Gnome:
System / Preferences / Sessions
> gnome uses ~/.config/autostart/myapp.desktop
>
> kde uses ~/.kde/autostart/myapp.desktop
>
> but how to solve this with common solution for all environments,
> because to write information into all places is not the way I like.
> It must be, that standard user can do it for himself and not to
> require root's permissions.
If the configuration files you mention above work, then I cannot believe
you would need root permission, unless the user in question is root,
which is not exactly the default in Ubuntu.
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