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This category is for GNOME settings.

manage applications on startup in GNOME 3

Startup applications are automatically started when you log in. With the program gnome-tweaks you can easily manage startup applications.

After the program gnome-tweaks is installed

# dnf install gnome-tweaks

you can start it:

$ gnome-tweaks

The following picture shows the adding of an automatic start of a terminal emulation with the program gnome-tweaks after log in.

Add a startup application with gnome-tweaks


This generates the file: ~/.config/autostart/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop

You can also simple copy desktop-files from the directory /usr/share/applications:

$ cp /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop ~/.config/autostart/


login automatic

Edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and make sure that the [daemon] section in the file specifies the following:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=username

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