On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 12:31:00 AM UTC-6, Ivan Mitev wrote: > On 1/15/19 3:46 AM, jrg.desk...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am sure almost everyone has one or more appVMs in which they autostart > > programs. That is, how do I set things up so that when a particular appVM > > is automatically launched at boot time (or I manually start it), one or > > more programs get started automatically? For example, in my "personal" > > Qube, I want Thunderbird, Slack (the collaboration tool) and Dropbox to > > start automatically. > > > > This is another thing I did under "straight" Linux, that I cannot see how > > to do under Qubes. I did the RTFM and attempted to find something relevant > > in the qubes-users forum -- no luck (or I missed seeing anything). > > You'll have to use .desktop files (as per the freedesktop "standard" [1]) > > For a given VM create (or copy/symlink) the .desktop file of the > application you want to autostart in $HOME/.config/autostart/ > > Eg. to start thunderbird: > > mkdir -p $HOME/.config/autostart/ # in case it doesn't exist yet > > ln -s /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop \ > $HOME/.config/autostart/ > > You can of course create custom .desktop files to (auto)run arbitrary stuff. > > As a side note the system-wide folder (that you'd customize in your > templateVMs) is /etc/xdg/autostart. > > > [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
@Ivan: Thanks, that worked just fine. I vaguely remember messing with .desktop files before my Linux distributions included GUI settings that handled autostart. By the way, how do I "Mark as complete"? @Alex: Thanks for responding. If I do not have to add programs for one-off tasks, I would rather not do so. But I will keep your suggestion in mind. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/fccec703-dab2-4498-82e1-e082048167e1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
