TopDog Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 I've been google'ing a while now, trying to find out how I can set current apps to start automaticly when I log into KDE. Maybe it's just me being dumb today, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for, so I'll take my chances and ask the stupid question here. The closest I think I got was this: on KDE, just dump a symplink in ~/.kde/Autostart Is this correct, and what is a symplink? What I want to start is Torsmo and KSmoothDock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) they meant to say symlink (IE: symbolic link). it's a virtual connection (of sorts) to an exectuable, without having to put the actual executable in the autostart directory. how to do it? ok, i'll give you three methods, from easy GUI to easy CLI........ method 1 (GUI). you can just copy & paste the executable file that you want to start automatically in the ./kde/autostart directory. find the binary or script files that start those apps (they should be in the /usr/bin directory) & just copy & paste them to the /autostart directory. method 2 (GUI). if you want to do a symlink (preferred method) via GUI, open Konqueror file manager, go to file in the top menu bar (it might be edit......i'm at work so i'm going by memory), select "create new", then "file", then select "link to application", browse to the executable you want to link, click "ok"/"apply". method 3 (CLI). open a terminal (or Konsole). navigate to your autostart directory (type..... cd /.kde/autostart & hit enter) then for a symlink, type......... ln -s /path/to/executable (hit enter) where /path to executable might look like........ ln -s /usr/bin/ksmoothdock.sh (or whatever the ksmoothdock executable name is) Chris Edited July 14, 2004 by chris z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 method 2 (GUI). if you want to do a symlink (preferred method) via GUI, open Konqueror file manager, go to file in the top menu bar (it might be edit......i'm at work so i'm going by memory), select "create new", then "file", then select "link to application", browse to the executable you want to link, click "ok"/"apply". Thanks, this metod worked perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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