GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 749825
Startup application doesn't have search option and ability to add a custom command
Last modified: 2017-06-08 02:49:18 UTC
Well the startup application was added to the tweak tool instead of a separate application but it lacks the basic functionality such as giving a custom command to execute to execute on startup (which was possible in the past, this is very useful to pass parameters to the application and also to run the application which doesn't have a gui ) and Search for the application list when we press the + to add to the startup (I had a hell lot of application installed in my system and search would be a good add to it :)
We could draw from Cinnamon's control centre (which does not relegate these settings to a separate tool like Gnome does) which allows you to add custom startup applications. To be honest I think this is *more* important than the ability to start regular apps. Regular apps can be launched easily from the shell, but random scripts and so forth don't have entries there, and often need to run at startup. Cinnamon's code is here: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/blob/master/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_startup.py I also have a ~/.config/autostart-scripts/ folder. I don't know if this is part of any specification (it doesn't seem to be a freedesktop.org spec) but if it is then perhaps custom scripts should be placed here? (Note this is not what the Cinnamon code does.)
Search is included in Tweak Tool. For the other request to add custom commands, see bug 727583. Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727583 ***