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Ubuntu 16.04 ~/.xsessionrc run twice on startup

i'm quite new to Ubuntu/Linux and i'm trying to start a desktop application at launch with a script located in ~/.xsessionrc. The script works but for some reason ~/.xsessionrc runs twice on startup ...
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Execute script on every start, wakeup and activation!

I want to execute a script on every start up, wake up and activation. In the current setup the script is executed in: /etc/rc.local /lib/systemd/system-sleep It works so far, but if I reactivate my ...
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System starts up slowly with errors including bluetooth timeout

I have tried several solutions posted in the possible duplicate, but It does not work for me for the bluetooth timeout part, and my system have more problems than that. See details at the end of this ...
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Temporarily disable startup apps on login

How temporarily disable startup applications per a particular session at login in Ubuntu/Gnome? Looking for the feature similar to Windows login when Shift key pressed until desktop starts.
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Start grub on external monitor (as laptop monitor unresponsive/broken)

How can I have grub start by default on an external monitor? My problem is that my laptop screen is broken/unresponsive, and I cannot see grub, as the external monitor is started only once grub has ...
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How do I disable drivers check after login in Kubuntu 14.04

Every time I login after full system restart I see running process "DriverManager" (can't give full description because it's happen for short amount of time), this is annoying because of high CPU ...
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Ubuntu not booting due to iwlwifi error-WRT: Invalid buffer destination

I updated Ubuntu 22.04.4 to 6.5.0-21 kernel update, since then I am unable to boot up into Ubuntu. While boot up, there is the error iwlwifi WRT: Invalid buffer destination I tried to boot into ...
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Startup of desktop environment is geting progresively slower over time

I have ubuntu 18.04 installed for >3 years with Xfce desktop environment. Over the last year the startup of desktop environment (i.e. time from log-in before disk finish crunching) became ...
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Pulseaudio doesn't start at startup

My problem may or may not be related to that in Problem with pulseaudio at startup (it doesn't start). After booting, I have no sound, all the settings are greyed out in Settings | Sound. This is ...
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Errors on startup

I'm running a Lenovo ThinkPad L390 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit GNOME version 3.36.2, and am receiving the following errors on startup: In: /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d//scripts/init-premount/lvm2: No ...
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Thinkpad L460 freeze on startup

i have a thinkpad L460 plugged in with an usb3 Targus dockstation with dual boot installed (UBUNTU 20.04 / Windows 10). Bios is up to date Version R08ET65W (1.39 ) When i boot the laptop for first ...
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How do I run an .appimage on startup (19.10)?

I have recently installed Stacer by downloading the appimage from the github repository. I could not do it through the ppa method because for some reason, after adding the ppa, the machine could not ...
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i3wm with libinput-gestures

I have googled for 2 days but I did not find my answer. I have a working config file for the libinput-gestures. Since a few days I am switched to i3wm. So far it looks good enough, only the libinput-...
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Every application which require admin password won't open

Something happened few days ago in my Xubuntu 14.04. None of applications which require admin password won't open. Apps like GParted, Update Manager, File Manager when trying to open a folder as root, ...
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Missing Gnome after Upgrade: Open /dev/fb0: Permission denied

Please help, I can't work with my new working device, a Thinkpad T470. Ubuntu 17.04 startup stops before Gnome desktop comes up. Last message on screen: /dev/nvme0n1p2: clean, xxx/xxxx files, xxx/...
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What is wrong with my Systemd service file?

I've been trying to get a systemd service to work for a while now, but with no luck. What I am trying to do is create a startup script that will start a java program for a modded-Minecraft server. ...
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Run .desktop file at startup (and follow its Icon= specification)

I want to run a script at startup that would use a custom icon that should appear in Plank dock. For that I have created a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications that runs the script (see all ...
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Booting takes very long in Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction I use Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop, ThinkPad E460. It takes as much as 1m 30s to completely boot up, which, by normal standards, is not fast (in fact, it is slow). I would like to speed ...
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How to hide clean message of fsck on startup?

I have seen that many Ubuntu user feel that clean message makes them feel like error in their system due to this -> /dev/sda3: clean, 291272/4292608 files, 480345/18174432 blocks Since it is not any ...
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Slow boot after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04

A few days ago I finally got round to upgrading to 16.04 from a clean install of 15.10. Everything works fine, but boot takes a lot longer than before with no splash screen (just blinking cursor in ...
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Where to put configuration to turn off multicast snooping on bridges?

This question does not have anything to do with multicast DNS, multicast UPNP or anything but multicast snooping. I know for a fact that if I do not turn off multicast snooping on my 15.10 system ...
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How do I have a long custom startup sound play completely?

I changed the default startup sound to one that I wanted. However, the song is longer than a few seconds, and only a few seconds of the custom sound play on startup. Is there a way to have the whole ...
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How do I start SARndbox when Ubuntu boots

I need help to make SARndbox startup when Ubuntu boots. I have been use your other solution for this problem but does not startup (How to start a program in startup that I start in terminal). The ...
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Unable to start Ubuntu. Unknown Job

I'm new to Ubuntu. It asked me to reboot because of updates. Now it doesn't start at all. I've managed to get to GRUB. I went to previous versions, and selected the only one available (3.5.0-23), ...
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unity-music-daemon uses large amount of memory

When I boot my Ubuntu 13.04 up, I noticed that my fans goes crazy and when I had a glanced at System Monitor, I saw that a process called unity-music-daemon is using a large amount of memory and CPU. ...
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Which applications and programs are vital at Startup?

The following applications from below are in my list of Startup. Which one of them are strict necessary for the system? How can I remove those not necessary from Startup (but not from my laptop)? AT-...
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Activating USB audio with /etc/pm/sleep.d script that runs pacmd commands

Ubuntu annoyingly switches the device for audio input and output from my USB headset to the built-in sound card every time I log out, hibernate, or shut down my computer. This takes place even though "...
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xrandr config not loading properly at startup from .xprofile

I'm using xrandr to rescale the resolution on a netbook (Ubuntu 12.10). When I run the following command it works fine: xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x720 --scale 1.25x1.2 ...
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Hybrid hibernate on Ubuntu?

After I saw Windows 8 uses hybrid hibernation instead of shutdown by default in order to solve its slow startup issue, I want to know if it's possible to use hybrid hibernation on Ubuntu to speed up ...
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Deluge start-up script works but won't start daemon on startup

I've gone through the instructions here to configure Deluge, and I've also gone through these instructions to set up the necessary scripts. The username I chose for DELUGED_USER was the user name I ...
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How to run a script everytime the X server starts?

I brought one of the 7 inch mini notebooks that have appeared recently (https://www.amazon.co.uk/UDKED-Notebook-MiniHDMI-Connectivity-Terminals/dp/B0C28FFYTK) Its a neat little machine and I have ...
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Ubuntu 20,04,4 LTS starts computer up from full shutdown on it's own

Three day old fresh install on an old HP Elite i7-2600. I shut it down at night, and it's running in the morning. Shut it down again, and it's on when I get home from work. Is this a setting or a bug? ...
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Certain apps start up slowly, some start fine and some do not start at all after login in Ubuntu 20.04

when I turn on my computer and login, my desktop is fully loaded but when I open certain apps (Brave) it shows Brave starting at the top but everything just stays that way for a few seconds and then ...
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How to enable Startup Sound in Ubuntu 21.10? Enabling a Startup Program method ain't working

I searched for it and found an easy way to enable startup sound via the Startup Application app. I added the program as instructed and restarted to hear the sound. Unfortunately, there was no sound ...
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Open terminal and run sudo command on startup

I have a custom command script called uua, that I put in /bin, and made it executable with chmod +x. I want my console to launch on startup and run the uua command, without me putting in the password ...
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Startup/Boot from USB error, fail to boot

I created a Startup disk on a 4GB USB drive using the Startup Disk Creator on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Created a Startup disk of 20.04 LTS. The process completed successfully and said that I could use the ...
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Slow startup in ubuntu 20.04

I installed Ubuntu 20.04 yesterday, but I am struggling with low startup, looking at the web, I found this command... This is my systemd-analyze blame 1min 45.559s plymouth-quit-wait.service ...
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Startup Application Preference, won't run Golang Executable

Added the following to my Startup Application Preferences under 18.04. (cd /absolute/path/to/executable_dir && exec ./executable) The above command runs the executable no problem manually. ...
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Ubuntu Shows A Blank Screen During Startup Instead Of The Ubuntu Logo

I'm kind of new to Ubuntu and linux in general. After the grub screen the ubuntu logo shows up for less then a second and then eveything turns black for about 30 seconds and then I get the login ...
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Systemctl cannot start service after TasksMax is set

I have a very small cloud instance of Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. Running htop shows 11 processes of /usr/lib/snapd/snapd running taking up tons of RAM... 1212 root 20 0 438M 11820 4636 S 0.0 2....
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Slow Startup of Ubuntu

When I run the systemd-analyze blame command the following enabled services show up 52.231s plymouth-quit-wait.service 15.176s snapd.service 15.051s dev-sda5.device 12.565s ...
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Slow startup on Ubuntu 18.04 fresh install

I have dual booted ubuntu 18.04 with windows 10 but i am facing slow startup on ubuntu graphical.target @46.678s └─multi-user.target @46.676s └─kerneloops.service @42.828s +8ms └─network-online....
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Redirect output of a startup script to terminal

I have a shell script init.sh that invokes a javascript script app.js like this: #!/bin/sh node app.js In the js script there are some console.log that i would like to see on the terminal. If I ...
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Run a script after session login or user change, not manageable by restricted users

I want to execute a script much like the "Startup Applications", as documented officially, and explained in this great answer and asked about again in this question. However, I have additional, very ...
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What does apt-daily.service do?

I searched the internet, and could not find any significant information about it. Making a wild guess, it performs a daily check for available updates. Is it so? But then, it significantly slows my ...
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Startup Application and @reboot cron not firing - what to look for?

I have an issue with my dual monitor setup: one is touchscreen and the other is not - the touch input correlates across both displays instead of just one. I can resolve the issue by mapping the input ...
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Standard user to run Firerfox instead of shell like GNOME Shell or KDE Plasma

I need to make a user than runs only one graphical program instead of loading the shell. It doesn't need to be restricted enough to reset all the settings every time the user logs out like regular ...
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How can i change OS setup screen?

I want to make changes to this screen that we saw when installing Ubuntu. Which directory do I need to modify? What exactly is this screen called? What exactly can I say to this screen? I've tried a ...
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How to hide desktop until application starts fullscreen

Using Lubuntu 18.04.1. I am running an application on startup from ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart. This application uses node.js to start a Chromium browser full screen in kiosk mode, and ...
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After booting headless (no monitor) there's no video output when monitor attached

On an Ubuntu 16.04 server normally run headless (i.e., no monitor), there's no video output, no text at all, when a monitor is attached later. However if that Ubuntu server is booted with a monitor ...
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