Comments on: How to Add a Program to the Ubuntu Startup List (After Login)

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:54:45 +0000

Hi everyone.

Does anyone where is the file in which Startup Programas write every command? This is the situation: I have no physical access to the server, I’m over ssh but I need to edit one of the commands that where setup to run at startup and I can’t find the file.

Thanks in advance!

By: arielCo

arielCo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:07 +0000

For those of you used to copying link files to a directory, the extension is .desktop and you’ll find most available ones in /usr/share/applications.

I found .desktop links to my current startup apps in /etc/xdg/autostart/ , /usr/share/gnome/autostart/ and ~/.config/autostart/. You may want to copy your links to the last directory as the other two are system-wide; in Nautilus, you can choose “Show hidden files (Ctrl+H)”.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:44:14 +0000

Howdy Satish- to add drives to ubuntu startup- (you want them to auto mount each time the computer reboots I assume). They must be NTFS- since other drives do auto mount typically (if I am wrong, just let me know).

So- assuming they are NTFS drives and you want them to automount at startup, you can install “NTFS Configuration Tool” (in the add/remove programs) and then use that to tell it what drives to automount. It makes the needed changes to your fstab file to do your work for you.

I hope this helps,

jim

By: Satish

Satish — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:10:40 +0000

How do i add my drives to ubuntu start up??
They wont start until i click them.

By: idodialog

idodialog — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:03:04 +0000

Not any more!
In Jaunty: System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications
gives you a very straightforward UI for adding Start-Ups

By: Manjunatha

Manjunatha — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:38:21 +0000

Thanks. It is very help full

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:06 +0000

I’m a new Windows convert too. I found that if you need to find out what the command line is, go to Applications > (your program) and right-click on the program you want, then choose “add this launcher to desktop.” That’s like a shortcut. Then right-click the launcher it creates, choose “preferences” and it’ll show you the command line to activate the program. Copy that and paste it into the startup program you’re adding to the session manager.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:10:38 +0000

Hm.. for me it was not enough to leave checkbox unchecked for Transmission, it started again after reboot, i had to remove Transmission completely from the list.
Ubuntu 8.04.
Thanks anyway.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:04:24 +0000

Very Very useful, Thanks, and I apprecaite it- that did the trick and using that made it all the way to what I was trying.

Thanks again Josir.

By: Josir

Josir — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:52:57 +0000

Hi Jim, there are no nub questions in Linux/Ubuntu world. We all try to help each other from the newbie to the expert.

To find where a program is locate, enter on console and type:

whereis tomboy

and put the fullpath on the program field.

Another option that few people use is the gnome panel. Right-click on the top panel and select “add to panel” – there are a lot of programs you can put on the startup, including tomboy.