====== Autostart applications at login with LXDE and Debian ======

{{tag>lxde debian}}

This is pretty straighforward, if you know were to put the files.
LXDE uses freedesktop.org [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/autostart-spec|Autostart spec]] which states that :

<note>The Autostart Directories are $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart [...]</note>

Good, then what's mine ?

<code bash>
julien@sachiel:~$ env|grep XDG_CONFIG_HOME
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/julien/.config

$ ls /home/julien/.config/
akonadi    gnome-session  lxpanel     openbox  Trolltech.conf
autostart  gpicview       lxsession   pcmanfm  vlc
enchant    gtk-2.0        lxterminal  totem    xarchiver

</code>

Easy, just copy the .desktop file of the apps in this autostart directory :

<code bash>
julien@sachiel:~$ cp /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop /home/julien/.config/autostart/

julien@sachiel:~$ ls -l /home/julien/.config/autostart/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 julien julien 9906 2009-11-30 07:17 pidgin.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 julien julien 5410 2009-11-02 13:32 print-applet.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 julien julien  161 2009-11-30 07:08 skype.desktop
</code>

That's it !