How can I make Shutter open at startup?

Question

How can i make the application, Shutter (takes screenshots) open at startup? I know about sys > prefs > statup applications, but after I go to add what do I fill out the form with? Shutter isn't a command, is it?

Answer 1

For Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04

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You can drag and drop the Shutter menu item ^{(Applications ➜ Accessories ➜ Shutter)} into
the Startup Applications window and it will be added to the list of applications that start on login.

Answer 2

For the command, add shutter --min_at_startup to make it startup minimized.

Answer 3

Actually, you answered the question yourself. Go to System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications and add a new item with "Shutter" (or something else) as the name and shutter as the command.

Answer 4

Ubuntu 11.10 and Above

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Refer to this Question, How do I add/remove the "hidden" startup applications? and specally to this answer to know how to access the startup applications

Then click on ADD and type this command in the CUSTOM field:

sh -c "sleep 50 && shutter --min_at_startup &"

You can change the time of the sleep if you want it to be launched earlier.

Answer 5

I ended up creating bash script, because non of other solutions working for me.

cd ~/.local/bin

Create file shut-ter-auto-launch with contents:

#!/bin/bash
process=shutter
makerun="shutter --min_at_startup"
while true
do
  if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $process
  then
    break
  else
    nohup $makerun &
  fi
  sleep 5
done
exit

Allow to execute it:

chmod +x shut-ter-auto-launch

Untick "Launch at login" option at Shutter preferences.

Add shut-ter-auto-launch to Startup Applications.

Shutter will launch after any other GUI app is launched.