How to delay startup of an application? [Solved]

[Crippled]

I have asked this in other forums without any luck. The icon in the panel from Astrill VPN shows up very tiny at times right after boot up due to it starting too soon. How do I delay the auto-start of Astrill VPN?

[MrEen]

Most likely something similar to how I start Conky with a delay. In Menu > Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tab, click on the item then click on Edit. Here's the Command I have for Conky: sh -c "sleep 20 && conky"

[Crippled]

How would I do this? "/usr/local/Astrill/astrill" /autostart

[MrEen]

I'm not sure. I'd rather not guess at the syntax in this case with the command already needing quotes. I'm sure someone else will be able solve it.

[secureIT]

Hi Crippled,

first: please let us know :

did you try the last suggestion from your thread in MX-Forum ? ….. as you did not answerded it ?

http://mxlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 55&p=48059

[Crippled]

Hi Crippled,

first: please let us know :

did you try the last suggestion from your thread in MX-Forum ? ….. as you did not answerded it ?

http://mxlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 55&p=48059

That didn't work.

[secureIT]

Thank you for the response.
So now let us try further solutions.
I think that:

"/usr/local/Astrill/astrill" /autostart

is the command in autostart.
Is that right ?

If, then lets try something :
1. Go to graphical settings menu >session and startup behavior > automatically launched applications ......
and take the hook out of astrill.
2. restart

3. Open up a terminal and copy this to it .... then press return key :

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#!/bin/bash
(sleep 20s && /usr/local/Astrill/astrill) &

.............and tell us. if that works (but be patient for 20 secs)

[Crippled]

Yes, "/usr/local/Astrill/astrill" /autostart is the command out of Application Autostart. hook? What do you mean by "hook?"

[secureIT]

simply disable it ..........
edit:
hook is set : ..... enabled
click on the hook ..... it disappears and the autostart of this app is disabled .......
You find the "hooks" into the front menu of autostart applications

[Gruppo Sportivo]

Where is the file or package Astrill Client been installed,probably i guess in the directory /opt

Go to graphical settings menu<->preferences <->startup applications,add a starter named AstrillVpn and edit the delay time.

Startup application command may look something like this /opt/astrilvpn/bin/astrill-client --quiet

[Crippled]

simply disable it ..........
edit:
hook is set : ..... enabled
click on the hook ..... it disappears and the autostart of this app is disabled .......
You find the "hooks" into the front menu of autostart applications

It started but I got this error. I am going to do a re-boot to see how it starts. $ /bin/sh: 1: nscd: not found
An unhandled exception occurred at $000000000042BF25:
EOSError: Failed to execute "/bin/sh", error code: 127
$000000000042BF25

[Crippled]

simply disable it ..........
edit:
hook is set : ..... enabled
click on the hook ..... it disappears and the autostart of this app is disabled .......
You find the "hooks" into the front menu of autostart applications

Your way didn't work.

[MrEen]

Just to be sure, see if this does it: Menu > Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tab, click on the item then click on Edit. Change the command to sleep 20 && /usr/local/Astrill/astrill /autostart

[Crippled]

Where is the file or package Astrill Client been installed,probably i guess in the directory /opt

Go to graphical settings menu<->preferences <->startup applications,add a starter named AstrillVpn and edit the delay time.

Startup application command may look something like this /opt/astrilvpn/bin/astrill-client --quiet

It's not in opt. In Application Autostart I have for Astrill this command. "/usr/local/Astrill/astrill" /autostart How do I add 20 seconds to it?

[secureIT]

if the error occurs after restart ...... next try will be :

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#!/bin/bash
sleep 20s && /usr/local/Astrill/astrill

This is only to find out the correct syntax for this app .........

(I start several apps with delay, but syntax will be not the same for all......... may be its a python script at startup-app - then the syntax will be different to "normal" apps)
then it might be :

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#!/bin/bash
(sleep 20s && python -u /usr/local/Astrill/astrill.py) &

[Crippled]

Just to be sure, see if this does it: Menu > Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tab, click on the item then click on Edit. Change the command to sleep 20 && /usr/local/Astrill/astrill /autostart

I just tried that and it prevents Astrill from autostarting.

[Crippled]

if the error occurs after restart ...... next try will be :

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#!/bin/bash
sleep 20s && /usr/local/Astrill/astrill

This is only to find out the correct syntax for this app .........

(I start several apps with delay, but syntax will be not the same for all......... may be its a python script at startup-app - then the syntax will be different to "normal" apps)
then it might be :

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#!/bin/bash
(sleep 20s && python -u /usr/local/Astrill/astrill.py) &

No, the error occurs after 20 seconds of entering that command but Astrill starts. When I reboot Astrill doesn't autostart.
If I re-enable autostart and reboot Astrill starts automatically but too soon because the icon shows tiny in the panel. This is what I get on the second command. python: can't open file '/usr/local/Astrill/astrill.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[MrEen]

May ask a silly question? Are you certain the tiny icon is due Astill starting too soon?

[Crippled]

May ask a silly question? Are you certain the tiny icon is due Astill starting too soon?

I think so because if I exit Astrill in the panel and re-open Astrill the icon shows up properly in the panel. It's also the first to start in autostart. What say you?

[MrEen]

Instead of restarting it, try xfce4-panel -r in the terminal to restart the panel and see if that fixes the issue.

EDIT: It's just first because it starts with "A" and the list is mostly alphabetical.