I wanted to run a simple program after logging into a graphical session (Gnome3).
There is a simple graphical utility startup applications (gnome-session-properties), this can be run directly but does not by default show up in search.
To have it show up in all applications or search edit the file /usr/share/applications/gnome-session-properties.desktop and change the line NoDisplay to false e.g.
NoDisplay=false
Adding a new startup application will create a new desktop file in ~/.config/autostart. Therefore to create a new startup application a new file could be created in this directory, for format of the file just copy an existing file and modify as necessary.
A simple entry is below
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=<command>
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=<name>
Name=<name>
Comment[en_US]=<comment>
Comment=<comment>
Notes on various technologies and other cool stuff I am playing around with. My own technical stream of consciousness.
