The Mate desktop surroundings has a variety of settings that customers can reap the benefits of for personalisation functions. The most effective, most in-depth customization options is the autostart operate, because it permits customers to automatically start programs on Mate. They will determine how their Mate system hundreds up programs, scripts, and even providers!
Configuring the autostart operate on the Mate desktop is finished by the system settings. To achieve entry to this space of the desktop, comply with the directions beneath.
Autostart programs by way of GUI
Configuring computerized program beginning in Mate with the GUI is finished by the Management Middle software. To entry the management heart, open up your menu and search for “Control Center.” Alternatively, the app will be opened by urgent Alt + F2 and writing in mate-control-center within the field.
Within the Management Middle software on the Mate desktop, you’ll see a complete lot of various settings. All of those settings correspond to particular person features of the Mate desktop surroundings and will be modified at will.
Scroll by the Management Middle software and make your method to the “Personal” part. From there, discover the “Startup Applications” button and click on on it to entry the autostart configuration space for the Mate desktop.
Inside the Startup Purposes Preferences window, you’ll see an enormous record. On this record, there are dozens of startup providers, programs, scripts, and many others. For those who’d like to create a brand new, customized startup system, find the “+ Add” button and click on on it with the mouse.
After clicking on the “+ Add” button, a small pop-up field will seem. On this field, there are a number of textual content fields. The fields are “Name,” “Command,” and “Comment.”
To automatically start up a program, discover the “Name” field and write out the title of this system. Then, write within the title of this system within the “Command” field.
For instance, to automatically start up Firefox in Mate upon login, you’d write “firefox” within the command space.
Eradicating program autostart with GUI
Chances are you’ll want to cease a program from automatically beginning on the Mate desktop. To do that, achieve entry to the Management Middle.
Observe: for fast entry to the Management Middle in Mate, press Alt + F2 and write “mate-control-center” within the command field.
As soon as within the Management Middle GUI device within the Mate desktop, search for “Startup Applications” and click on on it to achieve entry to the autostart GUI.
Inside the autostart GUI, scroll by the record of startup entries and choose the one you’d like to disable with the mouse. Then, verify the check-box subsequent to the service to cease it from automatically launching.
Alternatively, take away the startup entry for good by deciding on the startup entry within the record with the mouse, and deciding on the “- Remove” button.
Autostart programs by way of terminal
The Mate autostart GUI device is an effective way to handle computerized startup programs rapidly. Nevertheless, it’s not the one method. For those who’re a terminal fan, you can too create computerized startup entries within the command-line.
To make a brand new startup entry, launch a terminal window with Ctrl + Alt + T or Ctrl + Shift + T. Then, transfer the terminal session into the /usr/share/purposes/ listing.
cd /usr/share/purposes/
Run the ls command and consider this system shortcuts within the folder, so that you could be find the title of this system you need to auto-start.
ls
Can’t discover the app you want? Mix ls with the grep device to extra simply filter out a key phrase.
ls | grep programname
Take the title of this system and plug it into the next cp command to create a brand new autostart entry. For instance, to autostart Firefox on Mate by the terminal, you’d do:
cp firefox.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
Eradicating computerized program start within the terminal
To eliminate an computerized startup entry for the Mate desktop surroundings from the command-line, you’ll want CD into the ~/.config/autostart listing.
cd ~/.config/autostart
Can’t entry the ~/.config/autostart listing on your Mate desktop? If that’s the case, chances are you’ll not have an autostart folder. To create one, use the mkdir command.
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
Inside the autostart folder, run the ls command. Working this command will permit you to have a look contained in the folder.
ls
Be aware of the recordsdata revealed by the ls device. Then, plug them into the next rm command to delete and disable the startup entries.
rm programname.desktop
Need to delete a couple of startup entry at a time? Use the rm command, however as a substitute of specifying the precise title of the startup entry file (akin to firefox.desktop,) you may make use of the wildcard (*) operate in Bash on Linux.
Utilizing the wildcard (*) will permit you to automatically take away and delete all desktop shortcut recordsdata from the ~/.config/autostart listing.
rm *.desktop
