So, you want to 'do a pewdiepie'....have firefox open pc startup ??

[Condobloke]

You can do this with probably any of the apps pinned to your panel......I chose Librewolf, Thunderbird and Firefox, because that is what I use.

I run Linux mint cinnamon 22.1

Right click on the firefox icon on your panel; and select edit. Then copy the command there (firefox %u)

Then open Startup Applications from the menu

click on the + sign down the bottom, and then Custom Command

Give it a name (Firefox or whatever...)

Paste the copied command in the 'command' box

You can delay the startup if you wish....I delay them by 2, 3 & 4 seconds

Be sure to click on ADD at the bottom

Reboot the pc

Voila....Firefox ! etc

I also do this with Thunderbird & Librewolf

 

[The Duck]

What is a pewdiepie.

 

[KGIII]

I have a browser, email client, text editor (that opens multiple files, and a terminal that all open automatically.

You can add a delay if you have a slow computer.

Also, the directions will be different for other DEs.

 

[The Duck]

This is what comes up when you google pewdiepie.

PewDiePie

I make videos.

www.youtube.com

Google Search

Don't understand what this has to do with Linux.

Must be one of them today's generation things.

 

[KGIII]

Don't understand what this has to do with Linux.

See the other thread about this. He's a popular person on social media and switched to Linux.

 

[Deleted member 204243]

Yeah, the guy that will convert his 100 million followers to Linux...Soon we won't be complaining about bot activity on this forum. We will be complaining about massive number of new users.

Adding to many programs to autostart doesn't make sense, IMO. In the past I used to start groups of programs by using simple scripts. One of them used to start two browsers, email client, FTP client and Geany (I was into web development at the time). I had one for music making tools (LMMS, Audacity, MuLab through Wine, Hydrogen, MuseScore) and one for graphics/video (Gimp, XnConvert, Openshot). Starting all this programs together would be a bad idea.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Yeah, the guy that will convert his 100 million followers to Linux...Soon we won't be complaining about bot activity on this forum. We will be complaining about massive number of new users.

I never said that 100 million followers would all start to use Linux. But surely more people will be trying out Linux because there will be at least a percentage that might get curious about Linux and decide to try it out and then some of those might stick to it.

 

[909mjolnir]

Having too many startup applications is one reason why I quit MS Windows.
I like to start programs manually 99% of the time.

 

[Deleted member 204243]

But surely more people will be trying out Linux because there will be at least a percentage that might get curious about Linux and decide to try it out and then some of those might stick to it.

Man, you made me finally watch that video. After wasting 20 min. of my life I can say that the video is not gonna make anyone to move to Linux permanently. It's chaotic, very basic, his choice of distribution and window manager is terrible. The whole thing is based on simplified soundbites and is so f...g shallow that it's painful to watch. All he managed to communicate is that Linux does exists and it's different than Mac and Windows (does anyone interested in tech and computers not know this already?).

 

[f33dm3bits]

Man, you made me finally watch that video. After wasting 20 min. of my life I can say that the video is not gonna make anyone to move to Linux permanently. It's chaotic, very basic, his choice of distribution and window manager is terrible.

You can't even be happy that someone found the joy of Linux and is enjoying using Linux? Whatever happened to everyone being free to choose what software you use on Linux? That's one of the great things of using opensource software that you can choose what you want to use and your judging him for his choice of software? I now understand why they say that the Linux community is so toxic, for comments like this. You're negative view on things is making me so depressed that I finally agree with you, the world is going to end and nothing anyone can do to stop it. We are all doomed.

 

[KGIII]

You can't even be happy that someone found the joy of Linux and is enjoying using Linux?

Their posting history suggests that they can not do that. (Being positive and helpful aren't their strong points.)

 

[Deleted member 204243]

that I finally agree with you, the world is going to end and nothing anyone can do to stop it.

You see, the problem is that I don't think the world is going to end. I'm very happy with the position of Linux in today's tech world. I don't care if the year of Linux on the desktop will come or not. I don't give a damn whether 50 or 10 or 5 or 2 or 1 percent of that guy's followers convert to Linux or not. If they do, that's great. If they don't (and that's what I believe), that's OK - Linux is doing fine without them. The times when many Linux users had this inferiority complex (because of Windows having much more users) are, fortunately, long gone. We really don't have to jump with excitement, because some youtuber mentioned Linux.

I have decided to kill myself instead, thank your for you advice. I only have to choose how am going to that, I only have to think out how I am going to do it now. Goodbye World!

I believe this is a very poor example of sarcasm (you shouldn't be bringing suicide to the topic like that), but if you ever experience suicidal thoughts, talk to someone before you do something that can't be undone.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I believe this is a very poor example of sarcasm (you shouldn't be bringing suicide to the topic like that), but if you ever experience suicidal thoughts, talk to someone before you do something that can't be undone.

Your negativity is rubbing off on me, 90% of what I have read of you here since you got here seems to be negative. I have spent a lot of time here on the forum for the last several years since it's one of the only places I get to talk to people on a regular basis and since your most recent comments I have started to think about leaving because your negativity is rubbing off on me too much as is the evidence of my bad sarcasm on that one comment which I should have left in my head.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

You see, the problem is that I don't think the world is going to end. I'm very happy with the position of Linux in today's tech world. I don't care if the year of Linux on the desktop will come or not. I don't give a damn whether 50 or 10 or 5 or 2 or 1 percent of that guy's followers convert to Linux or not. If they do, that's great. If they don't (and that's what I believe), that's OK - Linux is doing fine without them. The times when many Linux users had this inferiority complex (because of Windows having much more users) are, fortunately, long gone. We really don't have to jump with excitement, because some youtuber mentioned Linux.



I believe this is a very poor example of sarcasm (you shouldn't be bringing suicide to the topic like that), but if you ever experience suicidal thoughts, talk to someone before you do something that can't be undone.

I tried to refrain from commenting on this thread after my post. I've debated a number of people and also like watching debates. The number one mistake alot of people make from my observation is the wrong mindset that one has getting into conversations. You should never enter into a conversation for the sake of winning an argument because then you will be stuck if it doesn't go your way and you'll end up hating the person that you are engaged with. Kind of like people who ask gotcha questions. Sometimes it doesn't go their way. What ends up happening is that they get filled with hate when things don't go their way.

The lesson is not to engage in conversations with the wrong mindset. Why argue for the sake of arguing otherwise you end up in a back and forth trap. Argue to learn things and challenge the other person's position otherwise you expose your character flaws to everyone.

 

[MikeWalsh]

(back 'on-topic'....)

Oh, I played around with this during my first year of Puppy, over a decade ago. I very quickly got fed up with it.

I do have one hang-over from those days. I have a wee script in /root/Startup (this is where our auto-start stuff goes) that runs the '--silent-launch' switch for Chrome's 'exec' line in the wrapper-script. It launches Chrome in the background, so when you DO want it, Chrome comes up instantly.....because it's already running!

There IS method in the seeming madness. Opera is my primary browser; here I have the Workspaces features set-up for grouping websites by subject matter. Chrome is, however, where my web-apps run from.....primarily the video-chat 'clients'. Since I run these via dedicated scripts from individual Menu entries as though they were desktop clients, I want these to start instantly.

I've also switched from Thunderbird for emails to the Seamonkey Internet Suite's email client. Seamonkey has long had the ability to start its individual components separately.......and the email client is basically the old one from NetScape Navigator. Very lightweight, yet familiar; T-Bird can trace its ancestry all the way back to this. So I knew exactly how to use it straightaway, yet it uses a fraction of the resources.....


Mike.

 

[The Duck]

I like to start programs manually 99% of the time.

Exactly.

I don't need anything but me starting up any applications in any OS.

 

[The Duck]

I'm very happy with the position of Linux in today's tech world. I don't care if the year of Linux on the desktop will come or not.

Leave Linux be.

Linux is fine where it is.

The Day Linux becomes the desktop of the home user base is the day it will become just another polluted OS like Windows is now.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

The Day Linux becomes the desktop of the home user base is the day it will become just another polluted OS like Windows is now.

This is true.

 

[Deleted member 204243]

Your negativity is rubbing off on me...

What negativity? I've been a very happy Linux user for long time. I don't have an inferiority complex or Mesiah complex and don't jump in excitement because some youtuber mentioned Linux, but it doesn't mean I'm unhappy or have a negative view of life. Where is the connection?

Yes, I don't believe this guy's followers will move to Linux, but it doesn't bother me at all. Why does it bother you? And most importantly - why the fact that I don't believe in it is so important to you? You disagree with me - fine. I respect your opinion. Why can't you respect mine?

I'm the only one who actually brought objective arguments to the discussion - all the past hopes and predictions about Linux and its future on the desktop that were quickly proved false. It's the other side that is trying to win the argument by a ridiculous attempt to psychoanalyze me (WTF?).

Seriously, if anyone feels offended (to the point they want to quit) by someone disagreeing with them and sharing an opinion about a video made by some youtuber then serious and balanced discussion becomes impossible.

Leave Linux be.

Linux is fine where it is.

The Day Linux becomes the desktop of the home user base is the day it will become just another polluted OS like Windows is now.

Exactly. Linux is in a perfect place at the moment. It doesn't need more users with inferiority or Mesiah complex. Neither it needs silly youtubers to spread a word about it.

Back on topic. I have removed from autostart everything I could (including bluetooth and clipboard managers and even Mint updater).

 

[theLegionWithin]

same, I typically disable things that try to launch on startup (other than the network connection)