mirror of
https://github.com/Brandon-Rozek/website.git
synced 2024-11-09 18:50:34 -05:00
13 lines
822 B
Markdown
13 lines
822 B
Markdown
---
|
|
title: "Autostart Desktop Applications"
|
|
date: 2020-11-29T13:45:28-05:00
|
|
draft: false
|
|
tags: ["Linux"]
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
The [freedesktop specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/0.5/ar01s02.html) describes how to identify file types, launch applications, and other useful desktop functions. A useful spec I've found recently is for launching desktop applications when you log into your machine.
|
|
|
|
In my Kubuntu 20.10 system, the directory `$HOME/.config/autostart` can contain [`.desktop`](/blog/linuxdesktopicons/) files that describes the applications to start on login. Drop whichever desktop file you wish to start there. In other systems it may be located under `$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart`.
|
|
|
|
If you want to start up a script instead, you can put the script under `$HOME/.config/autostart-scripts`.
|
|
|