Stupid question: How do I start an app at log on?

[Gruntfuggly]

I really like Albert, but it seems a faff to have to manually start it when it seems like it should be built in.

Is there a way to auto run apps in XFCE?

 

[lukey]

Settings > Desktop >Session and Startup >Application Autostart
and add an entry with "pnd_run <Path to PND>".

 

[FBnil]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Startup_applications


Nevermind, ninja'd

 

[levi]

I tried that to get deadbeef starting on my tv-out-only unit that I listen to music on, but it didn't work, and since it required a reboot to test it, I never got round to figuring why it didn't work.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Thanks peeps. Works a treat - or at least it does when you remember to include "pnd_run"!

If you use the file browser, it replaces anything you've already entered with the path - maybe that was what went wrong for you, levi?

 

[levi]

Perhaps, but I think I typed it in by hand. Which is another reason why it might have been wrong, on consideration

Maybe I'll have another go soon.

 

[atari_afternoon]

Settings > Desktop >Session and Startup >Application Autostart
and add an entry with "pnd_run <Path to PND>".

Thanks for this! I can´t believe in 4 1/2 years I have never thought of this before