KDE Autostart

Anand Buddhdev arb at anand.org
Sat Nov 12 20:00:37 UTC 2005


On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:36, Pete wrote:

> 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?

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

Anand




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