Chapter 8. Launching an application automatically on login

You can set applications to launch automatically on login using the Tweaks tool. Tweaks is a tool to customize the GNOME Shell environment for a particular user.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed gnome-tweaks on your system. For more details, see Installing software in GNOME
  • You have installed the application that you want to launch at login.

Procedure

  1. Open Tweaks. For more details see Launching applications in GNOME.

  2. Select Startup Applications in the left side bar.

    Select Startup Applications

  3. Click the plus sign button (+).

    Click plus sign button

  4. Select an application from the list of available applications and click Add.

    Add application

Verification

  1. Open Tweaks.
  2. Select Startup Applications in the left side bar.

  3. List of applications launched at start will be present in the center section.

    Select Startup Applications

Additional resources