Questions tagged [autostart]
Make programs start upon logging in, or stop them from doing so.
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How to run scripts on start up?
How can I run scripts automatically when Ubuntu starts up so I don't have to run them manually after startup?
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How do I start applications automatically on login?
How can I make an application automatically start when I have logged in?
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How can I configure a service to run at startup
I have a daemon that runs fine if I start it manually with the service command:
ricardo@ricardo-laptop:~$ sudo service minidlna start
* Starting minidlna minidlna ...
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Nginx - disable autostart
I went through some manuals and I didn't understand yet. How do I disable autostart nginx service?
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How do I make a program auto-start every time I log in?
I frequently need to start several programs that I use every time I start my computer. How can I make it so that whenever I login the program is automatically launched?
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How to start Virtual box machines automatically when booting?
I have many Virtual box machines in my Ubuntu12.04, each time i shutdown or reboot i have to start them one by one.
I wanna a help in writing script for automatically autostart the VBox machines ...
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Disable Docker autostart at boot?
I was trying to experiment with docker, Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit. I managed to run an image, and I gave it the path on one of my removable drives, /media/Drive1.
Now, whenever I reboot, I see there is a /...
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Why is chkconfig no longer available in Ubuntu?
I can not use chkconfig tools in Ubuntu 12.10
It's a very useful tools to configure the service to autostart or not. Why is it no longer available?
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Start ssh server on boot
I've been doing my google-fu, but I can only find outdated guides or guides pertaining solely to the server variations of Ubuntu.
I need to set it up so that ssh server is run on boot, so I can ...
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How to add a script to Startup Applications from the command line? [duplicate]
I have a shell script. I want to configure my script to run automatically during startup. I know how to do this from GUI. But I wanted to do this from terminal. How can I do this?
On a primary ...
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How do I start VNC Server on boot?
How do I create a system-wide autostart file? This would be on a cloud server running the desktop version of Maverick.
I logged in as root and created an autostart file using System/Preferences/...
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How to launch terminal on login
How could I get the terminal to be launched once I have logged in, so that typing commands is much simpler?
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Which startup applications can I safely disable?
Which startup elements can be safely deleted (for home desktop users)?
I use this terminal commands to see the whole startup list:
cd /etc/xdg/autostart
sudo sed --in-place 's/NoDisplay=true/...
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How can I stop mongodb from starting on system boot
I installed mongodb for learning purpose, the problem I am facing is that it starts on system boot and consume resources even if not being used. I want it to be removed from system boot, how can I do ...
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Disable gnome-software from loading at startup
Gnome-software, which is one of the top memory consumers, is being loaded at startup and thus decreasing boot time.
I rarely use gnome-software, and on most boot-ups it is useless. However there is ...
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Where is Start-up Applications in 14.04 Unity?
I cannot find the Start-up Applications in 14.04, I read on a forum that you had to go into Main Menu and allow it to be visible through preferences, but I have looked all the way through preferences ...
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How to disable OpenVPN from autostarting at boot-up or reboot?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, 64-bit, OpenVPN client 2.3.1
How do I prevent OpenVPN from autostarting at boot-up or reboot?
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How can I start a VNC server before log on?
I would like to run x11vnc (or another VNC server) on my desktop, but I'm unable to find a way to get it to start before any users log in. Back when I was using vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 Vino did this by ...
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How can I add new autostart programs in Lubuntu?
In Lubuntu, there's no 'Add New Program...' button in Desktop Session Settings. Is there an easy way to add new autostart programs in Lubuntu?
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Automatically Run a Command/script at startup [duplicate]
This question is ALL over ubuntu, with MODS saying its duplicate, but I have found no good answers!
I want to run the command, (this will work for script as well)
sudo service deluged restart
at ...
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How to run script after resume and after unlocking screen
In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I would like to run scripts after resuming from suspend, and after unlocking my desktop. These need to run as my user, and with access to my $DISPLAY.
In particular, I would like ...
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.xsession. .xinitrc, xmonad, and lightdm
Let me preface my question with the following:
I am pretty sure that I can hack together a solution by modifying /usr/share/xsessions/somesessionfile.desktop and make it run /etc/X11/Xsession, and get ...
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What are all the autostart locations in Ubuntu?
I'm a Ubuntu newbie in need of some advice from anyone very familiar with the different Ubuntu startup methodologies.
I'm interested in enumerating all the applications that are triggered at startup ...
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How to disable autostart of SSHD in Ubuntu 15.04
In older versions of Ubuntu I commented out the "start on ..." line in /etc/init/ssh.conf. This worked well, but not in Ubuntu 15.04.
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How do I prevent Dropbox from being automatically added to the autostart list after launching it?
Everytime I start Dropbox (in Precise) it gets added to the autostart list even if I deleted the entry before. I don't want Dropbox to be started when I log in only when I want it to.
How to prevent ...
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How to make program autostart only in GNOME
I use both GNOME and KDE SC. In GNOME, I use Docky but I do not use it with KDE. So, I would like Docky to start up only when I login into GNOME not KDE. In KDE, there is an option to make a program ...
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How do I set Xscreensaver to autostart?
I've just installed xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu 12.04 in gnome-session-fallback (Gnome Classic) mode. It works fine, but I have a problem:
I put "xscreensaver -no-splash&...
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How to shut down Ubuntu after 2 hours of being idle?
Running: Xubuntu 14.04 32-bit.
I have read several outdated, not working, working different that I want answers here and elsewhere. I had a script that resulted in shutting my Laptop down at boot time ...
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How do I use ARandR to create a permanent monitor layout in Lubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
So ARandR is great for setting up my monitor layout in Lubuntu 12.10 but even if I save the layout to the
~/.screenlayout
it doesn't seem to save that layout no matter what I call the file.
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How can I automatically set my status to Available when I log in?
This is the first thing I do after logging in:
How can I make it happen automatically?
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What is the difference between ~/.config/autostart and ~/.config/autostart-scripts?
I have Kubuntu 17.10, trying to copy a .desktop file into the autostart directory then I figured out that I don't have it, just the directory ~/.config/autostart-scripts
I do not know if they have ...
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How do I launch a GUI application as root on user login?
I would like to launch a Gnome application with root privileges at login.
I have tried adding a script to launch using update-rc.d myscript.sh defaults.
It looks like the application does launch, ...
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How to get Synergy to Autostart at login on Ubuntu 16.04
I am trying to get Synergy to autostart at boot on ubuntu 16.04 with no luck. I have seen plenty of ways to do it with 14.4 using lightdm or gnome but how does one go about it in 16.04 using Unity ...
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Making a backtick produce just a backtick
My backtick key (`) produces nothing when first pressed - I have to press it twice to generate a `. If I forget, and type ` e, I get an accented e character.
I am only able to fix this temporarily, ...
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Getting a script to run on boot, not on login
How can I get a specific script to run (preferably not as superuser) whenever the machine boots, but before login. It can be the last thing to run on boot. I mostly just want the script to work even ...
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connecting a SSH tunnel on reboot?
How can i reestablish a Tunnel if my localhost goes down?
i have 2 machines, Remotehost and localhost, on my localhost im running autossh to keep the tunnel alive in case of network problems.
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How does "Startup Applications" work?
I am interested in knowing how "Startup Applications", which you can access from the dock, work.
I want to know this because I want to know the difference between adding an entry in these places:
/...
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How do I disable Ktorrent from autostarting on login?
I'm using Kbuntu and when I turn on my computer and log in, the default app KTorrent automatically starts up and opens a window on my desktop. I want KTorrent to open up when I manually select the ...
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How to run .desktop files from command line [duplicate]
I am configuring a box with openbox (with GNOME under the scenes), and I want to run the .desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart/ from a script at login.
But xdg-open and gnome-open do not seem to do ...
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How to run my snap application on startup
I have a snapcraft application build on top of electronJs.
I would like that application to run on startup.
I tried to directly drop a app_name.desktop file inside the current user config/autostart ...
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How do I banish the "You have just inserted an Audio CD." dialog forever?
Sometimes when I insert an audio CD I get a dialog that says "You have just inserted an Audio CD. Choose what application to launch." It doesn't show up for every CD... probably something like once ...
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How to get LightDM automatically started at startup after disabling it (in Ubuntu MATE)?
I am working with Ubuntu MATE (16.04) on a Raspberry Pi 3. I disabled LightDM with
sudo systemctl disable lightdm
On the next boot LightDM did not show up again and instead I just got a terminal ...
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OpenVPN AutoStart Ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to set OpenVPN to autostart on boot. With 18.04 Mate I have tried my usual put opvpn config into /etc/openvpn and then edit /etc/default/openvpn to connect all. This does not work, ...
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preventing transmission-daemon from auto start?
On Xubuntu 14.04 I have installed the package transmission-daemon. It appears to start automatically when I start the computer. Is it possible to prevent this from happening and instead I would like ...
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Chrome autostart on ubuntu [duplicate]
I have recently installed Ubuntu on my PC, but I can't understand how to manage the applications -- as an example, I'm trying to get Chrome to autostart.
I can start Chrome manually, but I'm not able ...
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How to run a particular command at startup?
I don't understand scripts or how to make them or how to run them. All I want to do is run the command xmodmap -e "keycode 112 = Delete" when my computer starts. When I run this command in terminal, ...
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How to make Google Chrome not start as service?
I found Google Chrome running as service after I installed it, at each reboot.
This would not be a problem, if it won't eath 100% cpu. I would not like to uninstall it, but I'll be forced to do that ...
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Starting a background application automatically on boot
I can run the following command in a terminal
sudo /usr/sbin/archttp64 81
which is a management console for the RAID controller on this machine. Then I can run Firefox and use the address: ...
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Having apps stay open when the computer starts
Hello Running Ubuntu Mate. Is their a way to have command line applications open automatically at startup.
Right now every time I restart the computer I have to open the programs manually.
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How to make ubuntu service run as specific user
How to make ubuntu service run as specific user?
I created an init.d script and make it start at boot, but sooner I found the service is running as root after reboot.
I google and google, people ...
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