Wednesday 24 April 2013

Choose startup applications in ubuntu

How to choose startup applications in ubuntu?

Go to HUD and type (windows key when on desktop):

startup

How to choose startup applications in ubuntu?

But there is not much by default. Ubuntu tends to hide most of the applications from the user.

To have the full set of applications that start on the system boot up go to terminal and use the following command:



How to copy the startup applications list in ubuntu?


which is as follows:

sudo sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g" /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

This will copy the whole list of applications to the startup list available via HUD startup software:

How to check and uncheck the startup list of applications in ubuntu?