General way to autostart my application

[Roland Turcan]

Hello Florian,

Thanks, this idea with symlinks is the solution which I knew, but I
don't understand, that many thinks must be different among desktops.
Why don't they make a common ways for the same things.

TRoland;

<<< 19.11.2008 22:45 - Florian Diesch "diesch at spamfence.net" >>>
FD> Roland Turcan <konf at rotursoft.sk> wrote:

>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

FD> Usually you want to autostart different programs depending on which
FD> desktop you are using. If you really want to have the same programs
FD> for both environments you could create a directory e.g. ~/.autostart
FD> and then make ~/.config/autostart and ~/.kde/autostart symlinks to
FD> this dir.


>> It must be, that standard user can do it for himself and not to
>> require root's permissions.

FD>  ~/.config/autostart/ and ~/.kde/autostart/ both belong to the user.


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