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Re: How to get an app to autostart in Lubuntu

 

Hi, take a look at this entry. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Autostart

It should get you started on how to autostart programs per user.

I have no experience with xfce4-clipman, but it should work for what you are
try to do since you can run it with Alt-F2.

-Matt

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Lee Gold <leegold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Using Lubuntu 11.04.
>
> I put xfce4-clipman in my rc.local file hoping that would make it start
> when I boot. Though I installed this program with Synaptic it does not
> show in any menu and does not autostart at boot as I would like it to. I
> can start it via command line or with run Alt-F2...
>
> I think rc.local is the wrong place to start it from and it does not
> start with rc.local. I think rc.local is more for processes that need to
> start as root(?) unlike xfc4-clipman. In any event, how to I get
> xfce4-clipman ( a clipboard manager) to autostart and hopefully appear
> in the panel tray at boot? Lubuntu is not automatically "picking it up."
>
> Thanks
>
>
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