How to autostart a .sh after login?

Question

I have made a .sh (which works) to run a mono program. How do I make it run every time I login? (and display in a terminal, not just run in background) Ubuntu server 12.04 with Unity desktop.

Answer 1

Yes you can start any script by navigating toSystem \ Preferences\ Sessions menu item and then just adding the command or the script you want to rin

Answer 2

You could use $HOME/.bashrc It is parsed and run like a script, every time bash starts. Bash is the default shell for Ubuntu.

I have a script that saves every command line I've used, like this:

$ tail -2 $HOME/.bashrc
/usr/local/bin/backup-historial.sh &

Answer 3

Go into the Startup Applications dialog, click Add, give it a name and in Command put

gnome-terminal -e yourscript.sh

You can check it works first by running gnome-terminal -e yourscript.sh from a terminal (it should then open another terminal).

Answer 4

• First make your script executable.

chmod +x /path/to/script

• Open Startup Applications, from the cog menu present at the upper right corner.

• Click on Add.

• Fill in all the details and click Add.

• Logout and login back to check.

Answer 5

Put your script in a file (we call it yourscript.sh) and make in executable:

#!/bin/bash
#put your script here
echo "Press enter to close"
read line

Then open /etc/rc.local file using a text editor:

sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

Finally add the following code in the rc.local just before "exit 0" command:

gnome-terminal -e "./dirtoyourscript/yourscript.sh"

exit 0

Have a nice time.

Answer 6

if you kown how to handle crontab , add this line :

@reboot gnome-terminal -e "./dirtoyourscript/yourscript.sh"

if you don't know , execute the following commands to edit your crontab

EDITOR=gedit 
export EDITOR
alias editor=$EDITOR
crontab -e