• semitones@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    To be fair IDK how to tell a Windows program how to start up automatically if it didn’t have an option for that in it’s own settings… I’d have to search for a Windows guide

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      8 months ago

      “shell: startup” or “shell: common startup” in an explorer window take you to the startup folder for your user or all users. Drop a shortcut in there and you’re done. Been that way for decades.

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        8 months ago

        Okay here is question , show me how in 1.ubuntu 2. Zorin os 3. Pop os . Starting from making a shortcut to a program, by finding whwre is the executable of program. It’s a rabbit hole

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          8 months ago

          Shortcut? To put on desktop? If it already exists in apps menu, then just drag and drop. Should work on every DE. If doesn’t work on your DE, then do right click on app in menu and look at the options.

          If it doesn’t exist in apps menu(very rare), then do right click on executable and see the options.

      • hedidwot@lemmynsfw.com
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        8 months ago

        This used to be so much easier back in win 95,98,xp days.

        There was a startup folder in the start menu and all you needed to do was drag what you wanted into it.

        This is an example of something that got harder.

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        8 months ago

        Thanks for dropping that knowledge… Perhaps in years and years hence I’ll search “Windows add app to startup lemmy” to remember how to do this… I’m much more used to using msconfig to tell Windows apps NOT to start up automatically…

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      8 months ago

      But thats the thing you do know it , its found with one Search and applicable to Alllllllll the machines running the WINDOWS os (albeit different version might be lillte different) but on “linux” os its not the same for each distro, and its not easy in some cases

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        8 months ago

        Instead of “Windows add app to startup” I would search “Ubuntu add app to startup” and limit it to articles posted in the past year. Maybe not obvious but not that different honestly.

        On the other hand, no amount of searching got my laptop’s volume up and down keys to work in Ubuntu :(