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Why won't my xmodmap command run on startup/login?
I want to run this command every time I log in (or every time I start up, if that doesn't work): xmodmap -e 'keysym Delete = Menu' -e 'keysym Menu = Delete'
I've tried many things. I put the command ...
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Add item to inittab on OpenSuse 12.1
I am currently working on a project which needs to be added to inittab so that the program loads during startup.
The program that I am trying to start is a c# mono application. I have created a ...
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How do I start Xvfb on startup on Debian?
I’ve got a Debian web server that I’m using for occasional screen-scraping via Selenum and Python.
I use Xvfb as a virtual X server for Firefox to run on when being controlled by Selenium. Given that ...
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Stop program running at startup in Linux
How do I stop a program running at startup in Linux. I want to remove some apps from startup to allow them to be managed by supervisord e.g apache2
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Is there a standard way to have a program start when a user logs in on Linux?
Is there a standard way to make a program start when a user logs in?
On Ubuntu, for example, you can place a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart and the application will launch on startup.
Does ...
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On Linux, is there an rc.local equivalent for shutdown?
I've got a few commands that I run in rc.local so they are run last in the startup sequence. I would like to know if there is a similar facility for undoing the results of those commands at shutdown, ...
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How to auto-start a service (apache2) with Linux Mint
(Strangley) My installed Apache2 does not start up when logging in to Linux Mint.
Running this command gets it going:
sudo service apache2 start
How should I attempt to start up this service upon ...
