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“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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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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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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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.

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The problem is that you’re trying to do shit like if you were still on windows. Linux doesn’t really have startup applications, we use daemons for everything that needs to start with the OS, everything else is meant to be launched manually.

However you can still do what you’re asking for, and it’ll depend on the DE not the distribution. Ubuntu and Pop OS use gnome that has an option to set startup programs in gnome tweaks.

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In steam there’s a config option to launch on boot… But yea, all the arguments I’m seeing here is rooted in folks not wanting to learn. Switching to Linux is about as annoying as switching to osx. Yea there’s growing pains but no one ever uses these same bullshit excuses for that.

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In Lubuntu there’s an autostart section of the session settings, and I had to put Nextcloud client AppImage in there because it wasn’t starting automatically. But maybe LXQt is unusual? IDK.

Anyway, it wasn’t that hard. I didn’t even have to do a Web search or use the terminal, just opened the system settings and looked around for something that looked like autostart.

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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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