Autostarting apps on login

[Alexander Toresson]

On 3/26/06, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/06, Kevin Somervill <ksomervi at brokenlogo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've been looking around and not been able to find something that works.
> > I'd like to have xscreensaver and adesklets start automatically when I
> > log in, but so far, nothing seems to work.
> >
> > Tried .xsession, saving sessions, and using Desktop/Autostart; but none
> > of them work. Currently I'm using xfce 4.2.3.2 with the session manager.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ./ks
>
> In ubuntu dapper they were moved to ~/.config/autostart and named
> startme.desktop. When I upgraded it automagically converted my
> ~/Desktop/Autostart files for me:
>
> # This file was automatically generated for the autostart
> # item chbg
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Exec=/home/tslater/.config/autostart/chbg
> Hidden=False
> Terminal=False
> StartupNotify=False
> Version=0.9.4
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=chbg
>
> HTH,
>
> Todd

Ubuntu has svn snapshots of Xfce. In xfce 4.2.x this was done
differently. Basically, you put anything executable (script, binary,
symlink) into ~/Desktop/Autostart/ (create that dir if necessary).

Regards, Alexander Toresson