Run on startup?

[curiositry]

I’ve been using GNOME Do and occasionally Synapse for a few years, and I just ran across Albert and am giving it a try. Great project!

Aside from #10, one thing that would seal the deal for me would be being able to set it to launch on system startup like Do and Synapse. The first thing I want to do when I start my machine is quickly launch apps and open files (while the unity dash is still combing its hair), rather than launching Albert, resetting the hotkey and adding folders to the file index that get dumped when I restart like the hotkey.

Thanks for all the work on this project!

[rhoconlinux]

I don't know if I understood correctly, it seems like you mentioned a number of issues here.

Concerning the launch at the startup (assuming you installed Albert from the webupd8 ppa), open a terminal and type:

Setting Albert to run at system startup:

cp /usr/share/applications/albert.desktop ~/.config/autostart/ && chmod +x ~/.config/autostart/albert.desktop

That should do the trick to enable Albert on startup. Alternatively you can use the GUI of your distro in order to graphically setup the launcher, but I think that the one-liner above is faster.

Note: if you installed albert manually find the file albert.desktop and copy it into the .config/autostart/ in your home folder. Then change the permissions to execute the file. That's it.

Cheers! :)

PS: with the #12 workaround you won't have to fix the hotkey every time you launch the program. The index problem still depends on a manual fixing apparently.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Check the FAQ/Troubleshooting section. Since the url may change again in the future I'd rather recommend you to check the README.md for links to the documentation.

[mbigras]

Check out the Troubleshooting section there is a link—broken link.

Also, in this case, the How can I autostart Albert? section—also broken link—recommends using a symlink instead of cping:

ln -s /usr/share/applications/albert.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

2023 edit: Those links are broken and I can't find the frequently asked questions section at https://albertlauncher.github.io/. Also, I'm not sure why I even mentioned this in 2017 since I can't find any mention of autostart in the https://github.com/albertlauncher/albertlauncher.github.io git history.

[kmahyyg]

This workaround is not working with latest budgie-desktop.

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

Adding albert to the autostart won't load the correct icon theme. Is there a solution?

[rvega]

Adding albert to the autostart won't load the correct icon theme. Is there a solution?

+1

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Please open new issues for new issues.