Programmer Humor @programming.dev bleistift2 @sopuli.xyz 2 days ago

Autostart in Linux Mint

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I've found out the hard way: Running the script during startup, and running it using the proper user authorization, are two different things.
- And environment --- DISPLAY and PATH in particular.
  
  You’re right and I’m dumb. I forgot to absolute-ify one of the paths, which caused the script to be dependent on my user environment, which isn’t loaded by the desktop file.
  
  Knowing that the environment is finicky, I made sure to only use absolute paths to all files and executables.
  
  But thanks for the hint.
  
  What are you using as a Desktop Environment? Certain with DEs the Autostart programs need to be added in the config file.
  
  Cinnamon.
  
  Which config file?
  
  According to the Arch Wiki you need to place the .desktop file in:
  
  ~/.config/autostart/*****.desktop
  
  You also need to add the following line to the .desktop file:
  
  X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
  
  But that's probably the hard way to do it, I think the settings panel should also have a Startup Application tab.
  
  Thanks for looking that up. That’s where my desktop file is located. And it has the X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true line. The settings panel does have a Startup Application tab, and that’s what I used. It created the .desktop file in the appropriate location.
  
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  Check your journald and/or make your script log it's actions.
  
  Script > ~/script.log
  
  Thank for your help. Upon looking at it again I noticed the one filepath that relied on my profile being loaded. Corrected that. Works now.
  
  Trés stupide

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