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How can I make Guake start on boot?

Guake is installed and works fine via manual startup (typing guake in a terminal works e.g).

When I press Super and type "Startup Applications" Guake is there, using the command "guake" (simple one should think. But no). It doesn't work. I can not open Guake via the keyboard shortcut and top in terminal does not show anything that says "guake", that is until I open it manually.

I have also tried sudo cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/ but with no result.

Any ideas?

I am using Gnome Ubuntu 13.04, but don't think it is related to my specific system since I have encountered the problem on my previous systems (also Ubuntu based however), but haven't bothered researching it till now.

lindhe
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  • Try to edit the startup application command from guake to /usr/bin/guake or /bin/guake . Search and find where guake is lying. If not works, then check the .xsession-errors file for any useful error messages. – NickTux Sep 18 '13 at 22:53
  • Does the keyboard shortcut work after you start it manually? Also have you added any other programs to Startup Applications? – Steelsouls Sep 18 '13 at 23:08
  • NikTh: guake is located in /usr/bin/ (nothing guakey in /bin/ what so ever) but changing the startup command to /usr/bin/guake did not make any difference. I can not find the .xsession-errors file in my home directory. Shouldn't it be there?

    Steelsouls: Yes it does and yes I have (and other programs work well).

     – lindhe Sep 19 '13 at 15:07
  • I found this other question that might solve your problem. If so, I'll mark this as a duplicate. If not, I have another idea for you that I'll type up as an answer when I get home. – Steelsouls Sep 19 '13 at 18:56
  • Oh yes - that did the trick! Thank you very much! This should be marked as a duplicate (I find the other title a bit unclear (a session could mean many things. But I guess "start automatically" could do as well), so therefore I did not look into it before). – lindhe Sep 19 '13 at 22:30

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