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system application, that allows adding and management of program to session startup.

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How do I get redshift to start with my computer?

I have installed Redshift on my computer and it works fine with the command gtk-redshift. However, it would not start up automatically when using the same command in startup applications. How do I set it to automatically start?
Dandyman
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im-launch in Ubuntu startup

I found this im-launch startup entry after installing Ubuntu 19.10, which executes sh -c 'if ! [ -e "/usr/bin/ibus-daemon" ] && [ "x$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "xwayland" ] ; then exec env IM_CONFIG_CHECK_ENV=1 im-launch true; fi' I want to know the…
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How to add a script to Startup Applications from the command line?

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 research I found that the file needs to be moved to…
Anonymous Platypus
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How to add startup applications in lubuntu?

Is there a 'Startup applications' app for lubuntu? Or how do I add apps to startup? I attempted a tutorial to add entries to ~/.config/autostart, but it did not work. Isn't there an easy way? Any ideas please?
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How can I run a program on startup, minimized?

I just want Telegram to be run and I have added it to startup apps. The point is that I need it to be minimized. Any commands?
nermitt
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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/NoDisplay=false/g' *.desktop
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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 not an entry at start-up apps, not even after…
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Where did the startup-applications-preferences program go?

I would like to change my startup-applications, Where can I find the program startup-applications-preferences program? I'm using gnome-shell. I tried to reinstall it and to look for it by terminal (apt and dpkg) or Synaptic but I couldn't find it. …
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How to run xrandr commands at startup in Ubuntu

How can I run the following xrandrcommand on startup? xrandr cvt 1368 768 xrandr --newmode "1368x768_60.00" 85.25 1368 1440 1576 1784 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode VGA1 1368x768_60.00 xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1368x768_60.00…
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How to add a program as a startup application from a terminal?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I know the GUI way to maintain the startup program list but now I want to find out the way to add/remove startup applications using a command line interface (CLI).
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Does TLP automatically start when my system boots?

Does TLP automatically start when my system boots? Everytime i boot into Ubuntu i open a terminal and type sudo tlp startonly then i can find the difference in the system temperature. If TLP doesnt start automatically, Is there a way to add it as a…
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Google Chrome not starting

I am running 14.04 with latest update 3.13.0-30-generic. After restarting post update I found that Google Chrome is not launching. I am able to launch Google-Chrome from command line but if I close the terminal window the chrome window closes too! A…
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How can I stop terminal and firefox from launching on startup?

Hi everyone and first of all, thanks for your attention - I appreciate it! Here my problem. I'm new to linux, although I'm a web programmer so command line doesn't look weird to me, and I'm now running Xubuntu. I have made several configurations and…
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Start Synergy (or any application) BEFORE logging in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

Using Ubuntu 16.04.2 (Xenial) on Intel x64:{Both Processor and Ubuntu install} This question has been answered a million times, but none of the solutions work. So I don't want to duplicate a question, but it hasn't been answered. When I fire up a…
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