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

[Adam Behnke]

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, the spec link was for menu structures, not menu file entries.  This
> is the correct one:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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