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Autostart in Linux Mint (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I've found out the hard way: Running the script during startup, and running it using the proper user authorization, are two different things.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (8 children)

And environment

DISPLAY and PATH in particular.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

You’re right and I’m dumb. I forgot to absolute-ify one of the paths, which caused the script to be dependent on my user environment, which isn’t loaded by the desktop file.

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