[TriLUG] Advice Please

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Ed Blackman via TriLUG wrote:

>> for an autostart directory is not running on my machine. What looks in
>> autostart?
>
> ~/.config/autostart is part of the XDG standard for where to place .desktop entries that are run on desktop environment startup:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Autostart
>
> Not having that directory means that you haven't configured programs to 
> autostart through KDE, Gnome, or some similar desktop environment (LXDE 
> in my case).

Thanks. No I haven't set that up. Good to know it exists

> If you're using one of those, I'd expect that you could just create the 
> .desktop entry I posted in that directory, and it would run when you log 
> out and back in.  You might want to throw a "touch /tmp/foo;" inside the 
> sh -c "" to check whether it's being run and just not having an effect 
> on your touchpad, or not being run at all.
>
> If you don't use a desktop environment, the Arch wiki link has 
> references to programs that run autostart entries without a DE, but I 
> don't have any experience with any of them.  Someone with more 
> experience with how you start X might also have a suggestion of where to 
> run the xinput command.

thanks Joe

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