[mdlug] Adding a shell script to run after boot.

[Jeff Hanson]

You need an XDG/fdo menu entry (*.desktop) file in the ~/.config/autostart
directory.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html

Create a file named "myvideoscript.desktop" or similar and add to it:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=video-display
Name=Autoplay videos
Comment=Start videos
Exec=/usr/local/bin/myscript
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Video;
StartupNotify=false

Put your script in /usr/local/bin and make it executable.  Should start
automatically at login.  If it doesn't then check ~/.xsession-errors for
error messages.


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have advise on adding a script to run after boot. I'm making
> this script to play videos on a loop. I made a simple script and it runs
> great in terminal, but adding it to ubuntu sessions/startup does do
> anything. Adding it to rc.local seems to fail on launching mplayer before
> the system if fully booted.
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