{"id":472,"date":"2010-08-06T05:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-08-06T05:47:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:47:33","slug":"starting-applications-in-ubuntu-on-log-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Starting Applications in Ubuntu on Log In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I realized the first thing I do almost all the time when I log in to the laptop is open Firefox.  I don&#8217;t do this on the desktop because I tend to do other work there.  But on the laptop, it&#8217;s almost always checking mail or some other web browsing.  In the past, I&#8217;ve set this up and always undid it, as frequently, this wasn&#8217;t what I logged in for and, in the past, waiting for the browser to load was an annoyance.  However, machines are faster now and (on the laptop, at least) I&#8217;m spending more of my computer time on line.  So let&#8217;s give it a shot again.<br \/>\nI hunted through the System -> Preferences menu and found Startup Applications.  On the second tab, &#8220;Options&#8221;, there&#8217;s a button labeled &#8220;Remember Currently Running Application&#8221;.  I pressed it, logged out and logged back in.  No Firefox.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why this didn&#8217;t work, and given that, I don&#8217;t know what that button&#8217;s supposed to do, but it appears that you&#8217;re supposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeekstuff.com\/2009\/07\/ubuntu-open-applications-automatically-during-system-startup\/\">add the application to the first tab &#8220;Startup Programs&#8221;<\/a>.  I added Firefox (<code>\/usr\/bin\/firefox<\/code>).  It was selected by default.  Log out and log in, et viola, a browser window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I realized the first thing I do almost all the time when I log in to the laptop is open Firefox. I don&#8217;t do this on the desktop because I tend to do other work there. But on the laptop, it&#8217;s almost always checking mail or some other web browsing. In the past, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}