Posted: 11/2/2007 10:14:40 PM EDT
| I'm back to playing with Linux again and have a quick question. I am running Kubuntu 7.10 and would like to have an application start on bootup. Is there an Linux Equivalent to the Windows Starup folder? |
Well that was helpfull now wasn't it?  I just installed Ubuntu today on my laptop. I have a thread about it in the urban commando's forum. I'm not at home, and I don't have my laptop with me so unfortunately I can't do some digging to help you out, sorry. |
| Kubuntu is pretty nice. I personally am a fan of Fedora running KDE, but either one works. As for application init at login, if you shut down or reboot while that app is running, it should restart again on start up. If it's not an app that's running within the KDE framework, you may need to write a basic init script and put it in /etc/init.d (or is it /etc/rc.d?) |
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I personally think the Ubuntu distro is the best thing that could have happened to the linux community. Laptops were especially touchy when it came to compatibility. Five to six years ago when I was a teenager I had TONS of time to deal with building kernels and setting up everything I needed to get a machine to work, I generally used Debian because of the Apt-get packaging system. Nowadways, I don't have time to screw with anything, I need to install something and have it work. Ubuntu flawlessly installs a working distro on every laptop i've tried it on. OpenOffice is probably the best thing since sliced bread, open and edit native Excel, Word and ppt docs Gimp has finally come around to be a very useful graphics program Firefox/Thunderbird work excellent as browsers and email clients. Getting into linux has never been easier. |
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In the /etc directory you'll find init.d, this is where your start-up scripts go. Link them to you run level directory, look for rc5.d in the /etc directory. you can verify your runlevel by looking at /etc/inittab, it sould read something like: id:5:initdefault: meaning runlevel 5 is the default. The fun begins! |