Adding program to startup

[Sachin_ruk]

Hi all,

I want to add my sticky notes application, xpad to startup so that I dont need to manually go about opening it up everytime.

How would I do this.

Thanks,
Sachin

[lechien73]

If you're using Ubuntu 11.10, then click on the power & settings button (the cog icon in the top right corner), choose Startup Applications

If you're using 10.04, then go to System –> Preferences –> Startup Applications

Then click Add. For the Command simply type xpad. Click the Add button, and then it's done.

When you restart your computer, xpad should start up automatically.

[chickenPie4breakfast]

What are the switches for this? like %F
I want to add a program but dont want it to expand onto the desktop but instead remain in the background untill I call it is there a minimize switch or something?

[MG&TL]

What are the switches for this? like %F
I want to add a program but dont want it to expand onto the desktop but instead remain in the background untill I call it is there a minimize switch or something?

Should really be a separate thread, but...

That's program-dependent. You can see if a program has such an option with:

man <program name>

For example empathy has --hidden, which minimises it by default.