How do I add startup programs in Gnome 3?

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Sat Mar 26 19:43:55 UTC 2011


On 03/25/2011 08:13 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I took the plunge to Gnome 3 and although I am playing around, I wish to add some of the old functionality like there was before, i.e, add a starting up script, in the old way one would open gnome session and add the program/script to run at bootup, now the same cannot be applied.
>
> I want to add GKrellM system monitor.  ATM I use a terminal and type
> $ gkrellm&
> or run it from the applications(System ->  GKrellM), but I want to see if it can run without me typing it in?
>
> TIA,
>
> Antonio
>
> [students at E213-299 Downloads]$ uname -a
> Linux E213-299 2.6.38.1-6.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 22:43:31 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
>
gnome-session-properties will do what you want......

$ sudo yum whatprovides */gnome-session-properties
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
gnome-session-2.91.91.3-1.fc15.x86_64 : GNOME session manager
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties



gnome-session-2.91.93-1.fc15.x86_64 : GNOME session manager
Repo        : updates-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties



gnome-session-2.91.93-1.fc15.x86_64 : GNOME session manager
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties





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Regards,
OldFart



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