Your Question: How Do I Make a Program Start Automatically in Ubuntu?

How do I autostart a program in Ubuntu?

Startup Applications

1. Open Startup Applications via the Activities overview. Alternatively you can press Alt + F2 and run the gnome-session-properties command.
2. Click Add and enter the command to be executed at login (name and comment are optional).

How do I get a program to start automatically in Linux?

Automatically run program on Linux startup via cron

1. Open the default crontab editor. $ crontab -e. …
2. Add a line starting with @reboot. …
3. Insert the command to start your program after the @reboot. …
4. Save the file to install it to the crontab. …
5. Check if crontab is properly configured (optional).