How to make Guake start at login?

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I had to reinstall Ubuntu and always used Guake Terminal and it was always starting when the desktop appeared and I only pressed F12 and it did everything I had to.

But now it doesn't start automatically. I was looking for an answer but nothing worked. Has anybody ideas how to solve it ? It would be really nice to use it as earlier ;)

This worked for me http://askubuntu.com/questions/136559/guake-doesnt-start-when-session-starts — jblaya, Dec 23 '13 at 14:44

score 80 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 05 '19 at 18:42

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Goto Activities or to Show Applications menu and type Startup Applications.

The Startup Application Preferences window opens. Then, click in Add, give a name for the application in the Name field ("Guake" it's enough), and then type “guake” without quotes in the Command field and click Add. Then close the Startup Application Preferences window and restart the machine, now Guake should start automatically on login.

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edited Dec 05 '19 at 18:42

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Jul 27 '14 at 14:10

Sergio

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Guake can be found here: /usr/bin/guake (if needed), else just type it like Chechus said ;-) – TungstenX Oct 15 '15 at 13:55
This worked nicely for me on 16.04. – JamesBB Apr 15 '17 at 11:17

score 26 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 05 '19 at 18:39

Have you tried adding it to the startup applications (search "startup applications")

If you have, try adding a .desktop file to /etc/xdg/autostart/

You can do this with the following command

sudo ln -s /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/

This is just an example, I don't know what the guake .desktop file is named but you can easily find out by having a look in the map: /usr/share/applications/

If by chance that doesn't work as well then there is one other solution you could try adding the following command to the startup applications

bash -c "sleep 10 && guake"

If it doesn't work try varying the sleep time because it depends on your system's speed but usually 10 seconds will work just fine.

I tried it with the Startup Applications and it didn't work earlier, the same now. But adding the desktop file solved the problem ! ;) Thanks very much ! — Karim, Oct 30 '13 at 21:47

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 11 '14 at 13:13

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Use this:

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/

edited Jul 11 '14 at 13:13

Eric Carvalho

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answered Jul 11 '14 at 11:32

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You posted this six months after @akisame posted a better answer. Use a symbolic link, don't make another copy. – Mawg says reinstate Monica May 24 '19 at 08:37

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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This helps for me:

Guake Doesn't Start When Session Starts

In Guake's preferences just uncheck Enable notifications on startup, and add the full path (e.g. `/usr/bin/guake) to startup applications.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Community

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answered Dec 16 '14 at 04:09

Oleg Abrazhaev

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 20 '22 at 23:02

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You may rather use guake --hide at startup for just opening the prgrm in background and not the terminal window until F12 is pressed.

answered Aug 20 '22 at 23:02

Sergio

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 08 '17 at 03:57

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locate guake.desktop then do,

$ cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
$ echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true" >> guake.desktop

answered Feb 08 '17 at 03:57

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