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Posted: **Mon May 04, 2009 3:20 pm**

I'm trying to autostart a Python GUI script after LXDE launches (remaster Knoppix 6) I've tried creating a /home/knoppix/.config/somescript.desktop file which contains:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/knoppix/somescript.py

and that didn't work, neither did creating ~./.config/openbox/autostart.sh containing:

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# Run the system-wide support stuff
. $GLOBALAUTOSTART
# Programs to launch at startup
hsetroot ~/wallpaper.png &
xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &
# Programs that will run after Openbox started
(sleep 2 && somescript.py) &

I've also tried creating /home/knoppix/.config/autostart folder and putting a symlink in there to the .py script I want to run (I can't just cp the file tree in there or it would try
to run all the support files) but that doesn't work either. I can't seem to find any other command line edit that will accomplish this, which is what I need. Thanks for the help.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2009 6:42 pm**

Try changing the Exec command to "python /home/knoppix/somescript.py" and copying the resulting *.desktop file to /home/knoppix/.config/autostart.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 7:01 am**

none of them worked, here's what I did:

create /etc/xdg/autostart/someentry.desktop containing:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Somename
Comment=Scanner
Type=Application
Exec=/home/knoppix/somescript.py
Terminal=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

I also wanted to run a root mount script, which I did by creating another file in the same dir of somerootscript.desktop

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=somerootscript
Comment=Somescript
Type=Application
Exec=/home/knoppix/rootscript.sh
Terminal=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

in /home/knoppix/rootscript.sh I put

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#!/bin/bash
sudo /pathtorootscript/rootscript.sh

and that all worked. This took a ton of time to figure out, I hope it helps.

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