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Autostart in Linux Mint (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Knowing that the environment is finicky, I made sure to only use absolute paths to all files and executables.

But thanks for the hint.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What are you using as a Desktop Environment? Certain with DEs the Autostart programs need to be added in the config file.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Cinnamon.

Which config file?

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

According to the Arch Wiki you need to place the .desktop file in:

~/.config/autostart/*****.desktop

You also need to add the following line to the .desktop file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

But that's probably the hard way to do it, I think the settings panel should also have a Startup Application tab.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for looking that up. That’s where my desktop file is located. And it has the X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true line. The settings panel does have a Startup Application tab, and that’s what I used. It created the .desktop file in the appropriate location.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

surprised_pikachu_face.jpeg

Check your journald and/or make your script log it's actions.

Script > ~/script.log

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago

Thank for your help. Upon looking at it again I noticed the one filepath that relied on my profile being loaded. Corrected that. Works now.

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