How to make the terminal autostart at startup

[makecoldplayhistory]

Hi there,

I'm pretty new to any kind of Linux distro and am trying to get the terminal to run at start up.

I've got the start up application preferences and click add. I realise that the command box needs to be filled with the location of the software - I guess that if I was doing it for a Windows machine, I'd look for the .exe file in c:\program files...

In this case, the command, from what I understand, is the location of the software.

I can seem to find the terminal anywhere though. What is the command I need to add?

Thanks a lot

[DataMan]

Try inserting

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gnome-terminal

into a new entry for your startup applications (found in the Control Center).

Of course, restart to test it out...

-DataMan

[makecoldplayhistory]

thanks a lot.

worked perfectly

[DataMan]

Glad to hear it.

As a hint for future reference, to find out the command associated with a specific app, go into the Mint Menu , single right click on the app in question. View the properties and you will find the command for the running the application (of course it has to be part of the Mint Menu).

-DataMan

[Anakinholland]

Not trying to intrude on anything, as gnome-terminal is great to work with, but maybe you would like to check out guake.

It's a process that will always run in the background and is accessable by merely pressing F12 (default, can be changed) and be done with it pressing the same key

Using it for quite a while now, and the only downside is that it has issues with vi, since its dimensions are fully dynamic, so vi doesn't know what to display where. You will have to add it to Applications that start at boot, but you only need to tick a box,

It's in the repos, so you can install it by using this command:

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sudo apt-get install guake

Regards,

Anakin

[makecoldplayhistory]

Not trying to intrude on anything, as gnome-terminal is great to work with, but maybe you would like to check out guake.

It's a process that will always run in the background and is accessable by merely pressing F12 (default, can be changed) and be done with it pressing the same key

Using it for quite a while now, and the only downside is that it has issues with vi, since its dimensions are fully dynamic, so vi doesn't know what to display where. You will have to add it to Applications that start at boot, but you only need to tick a box,

It's in the repos, so you can install it by using this command:

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sudo apt-get install guake

Regards,

Anakin

Thanks a lot.

I've now stopped the terminal running at startup... guake looks great.