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How to setup your NTFS drives/partitions to mount on elementary OS startup?
If you like GUIs and / or are afraid to access directly the config files, a good option is Gnome Disks.
Install via sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility
You can set to mount at startup like this:
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Run AppImage on Startup
Got it working by copying the relevant .desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications/ to ~/.config/autostart.
The AppImage I downloaded, when run the first time, gave an option to add shortcut file,...
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Prevent AppCenter window opening on startup?
Rename the io.elementary.appcenter-daemon.desktop to prevent startup.
cd /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo mv io.elementary.appcenter-daemon.desktop io.elementary.appcenter-daemon.desktop.bak
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Plank not starting after reinstall
This is controlled via a dconf setting in Loki:
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.cerbere monitored-processes
It should contain plank (the default is ['wingpanel', 'plank']). If plank is not ...
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Too long to power up
This is a bug with DBus - see the answer I posted here.
Essentially DBus is preventing everything from starting up, so until that's fixed you need to rename the file causing issues:
sudo mv /etc/...
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Turn off bluetooth by default on start up
You can disable the Bluetooth service.
sudo systemctl stop bluetooth
sudo systemctl disable bluetooth
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Generally speed up elementary OS
You can install preload and zram-config. It will make it a bit faster and it will use less ram.
In Elementary install gnome-system-monitor first to check your ram usage.
sudo apt install gnome-...
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How do I make a script run at startup (not from settings)?
You can manually add a .desktop file to ~/.config/autostart/ and this would be executed by elementary on login. This would be effectively identical to using the GUI though.
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How to remove or hide the GRUB boot menu in elementary OS?
To not see the GRUB menu while booting:
Open terminal and run:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Change GRUB_TIMEOUT value to 0 which is 10 by default.
Now run sudo update-grub
Now reboot.
Note:
If ...
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Generally speed up elementary OS
I think i know what you mean. Xubuntu is build with the philosophy to let hardware do nothing. elementary os is build with the philosophy to give users the best experience. elementary's philosophy ...
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Settings-Applications-Startup list versus ~/.config/autostart
There are different places from where stuff is autostarted. There are /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart that I know of.
All the stuff, that's not shown in the Startup list is in /etc/xdg/...
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Turn off bluetooth on startup
Because of where I use my laptop at times, I also needed to have the machine boot with Bluetooth off. Here is how I did it:
I installed dconf-editor. This can be done via the AppCenter or at a ...
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Automounting external drives in Elementary OS
Install gnome-disks using the command
sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility
The open it using sudo gnome-disks
Select the partition you want to mount. Click the gear-icon and the on Edit mount ...
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How to run sudo commands on start up?
So I solved my problem.
It turned out I did not actually need to use sudo with these commands.
What I did was to save the 2 commands (without sudo) in a bash script in my home folder. Then I ...
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Turn off bluetooth on startup
So thanks to Porshe Man's answer I have noticed interesting thing. dconf option named bluetooth-enabled stores the current value of bluetooth switch just for the purpose of setting that state at the ...
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Stuck with windows Automatic repair loop after installing eOS alongside Windows 10
Your problem is that you change to AHCI. Windows was installed on IDE. I had same problem some times ago, try to revert back to IDE and try to boot Windows. If you fix it you need to reinstall ...
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How to add a script to start up sequence so that it applies before the actual login screen?
There are a couple of ways to do this. You can either create a cron job or add your script to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
This site has more information:
https://www.tecmint.com/auto-execute-linux-scripts-...
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Long boot time after recent updates
This is a known bug in dbus.
Workaround:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop.backup
More info:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+...
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Some startup commands not executing
Some commands always needed some delay for me, so try adding sleep 3 && before the command.
Other option to try is to make a new file in home (eg. Startup.sh). Open it with scratch and ...
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Startup command won't execute
You might want to create a script and add it as a custom startup command.
~/.local/bin/start_xcaliber.sh
#!/bin/sh
xcaliber --bR=256 --bG=256 --bB=212 --gR=1.04 --gG=0.9600000000000001 --gB=1.01
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How to set startup commands for application´s in launcher shortcut?
Open Files as root and go to /usr/share/applications/
Find the shortcut you need and open it in Scratch and edit the Exec line with whatever you need.
Some applications setup their .desktop files in ...
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Add to Startup an application that is not showing
I got it working by linking the .desktop file to ~/.config/autostart.
I still think it's a bit confusing that the app list in that specific settings page is different than what is shown in the ...
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Add to Startup an application that is not showing
In some cases installed applications are not present in the available list of applications that can be added to the startup list, but you could just add the path to your application executable into ...
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Custom command won't run at startup
After making this question I realized that elementary OS can do this via settings, with no need to mess with configuration files. Just go to System settings/Keyboard/Layout and select your desired ...
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Custom command won't run at startup
These are actually two commands, you might want to create a startup script ~/.local/bin/remap_capslock with the contents:
#!/bin/bash
setxkbmap -option caps:backspace &
xset r 66
set it to ...
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1,414 lines of syslog has been written when computer starting up - is it normal?
There is no problem with 1,5k lines in the syslog at startup, it can be absolutely normal.
However, there might be some errors that cause slow startup indeed, for finding them you should look more ...
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How to disable startup chime?
This will depend on how you're booting into elementary OS. Most of the solutions I found were specific to booting into OS X, so you might have more options if you still have OS X installed and/or are ...
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How to change default runlevel
You can install the driver's in runlevel 3.
CTRL+ALT+F2
$ sudo init 3
Or if you want to stay at your runlevel but only want to clip off X:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
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