[SOLVED] Program added to Startup Applications doesn't

[kwatson512]

I installed Desktop Drapes to get rotating backgrounds. In the program's preferences you can check to have it start on login, which I did. I then opened up Startup Applications to double check that it was included there, which it is. But it does not start on login. It works fine when I manually start it.

Running Mint 11 64-bit on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s laptop (quad Intel i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz, 8GB RAM).

[xenopeek]

This is a recurring issue with Desktop Drapes, and I'm baffled why that team doesn't include a fix. It has been an open issue for the past 4 years (https://bugs.launchpad.net/drapes/+bug/292051), and still everybody has to manually find this solution

1. From the Desktop Drapes' preferences, disable the start on login.
2. Go to Startup Applications and confirm it is removed
3. Add a new entry, give it name "Start Desktop Drapes" (or whatever you want) and command:

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sh -c "sleep 20 && drapes &"

This should start Desktop Drapes with a 20 second delay.

[kwatson512]

Vincent,

Thank you! Any reason you picked 20 seconds? I changed it to 10 and it seems to work fine.

Ken

[xenopeek]

Vincent,

Thank you! Any reason you picked 20 seconds? I changed it to 10 and it seems to work fine.

Ken

Whatever works It needs to delay past loading all the other startup applications; if 10 seconds is enough, that's fine.