[Solved] Autostart plank

[Member betman]

Hello, everyone!
I installed plank via synaptic and added the following to ~/.desktop-session/startup:

#start plank
/usr/share/applications/plank.desktop

without any gain. Plank doesn’t startup. What should I do to make it work?
Thanks!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by betman.

[Moderator caprea]

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I don’thave plank installed, but did you try simply “plank” in the file ?
For the startup-file you have to use something, that works in terminal, like plank or /usr/local/bin/plank or /usr/bin/plank,
depending on where it is installed.

[Member betman]

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That worked! Just as supposed to. Thanks a lot, caprea. I have one question though. Can I be sure that, any app that I’ll install will be available in one of the two: either /usr/local/bin/plank or /usr/bin/plank ? Or are there other folders I should look into?

[Member number698]

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betman wrote:

That worked! Just as supposed to. Thanks a lot, caprea. I have one question though. Can I be sure that, any app that I’ll install will be available in one of the two: either /usr/local/bin/plank or /usr/bin/plank ? Or are there other folders I should look into?

‘whereis’ will help,

eg,

$ whereis plank
$ whereis rox

etc,,,

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by number698.

[Member betman]

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Thanks a lot, number698! That’s a neat trick to learn.

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