KDE Autostart

Pete pchoppin at comcast.net
Sun Nov 13 00:25:45 UTC 2005


Anand Buddhdev wrote:

>On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:36, Pete wrote:
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>>Hey All
>>I need to know how to have programs start automatically when I boot
>>up the system.  I have been hunting around the Internet and the
>>closest thing I have found is supposed to be in
>>~/desktop/.kde/Autostart.  But I have not found anything to indicate
>>HOW to set this up.  I am running KDE.  I did find in Gnome where to
>>add startup programs in the Session. Is there something similar in
>>KDE?  Can anyone help?
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>Hi Pete,
>
>You're almost there. What you need to do is to create a symbolic link 
>from the program into the Autostart directory. So, if you want to 
>run /usr/bin/ssh-add at KDE startup, do:
>
>$ ln -s /usr/bin/ssh-add ~/.kde/Autostart
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>Anand
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That worked perfect
Thank you

Pete




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