Guake does not autostart - workaround

[viking60]

Recently I had the problem that guake does not autostart even if I had set it in gnome-session-properties.

This only affects guake and it seems to affect at least Arch and Ubuntu.
I have no Idea why this happens since every other entry in gnome-session-properties autostarts on loading as it should.
(it makes an entry in ~/.config/autostart)
So a workaround is called for:
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cd /usr/bin

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sudo nano startguake.sh

3 enter this content:

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#! /bin/sh

sleep 15
echo guake started: $(date) >> guake.log
guake

exit 0


Save and exit.

start gnome-session-properties
and edit the guake entry in the command prompt like this:

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sh startguake.sh

Now guake will be auto-loaded.

[dedanna1029]

New install of Mint here, hadn't had chance yet to set these things up. I'm going to test this after a while, first seeing if it does autostart or not. I know that before I tested MDV on this thing, and was on the old install of Mint, it was autostarting, at least in KDE. Will report back.

[viking60]

Yes please do - thanks!

[dedanna1029]

See p.m.

[viking60]

OK got it! It works in Mint. I am not sure what triggers this.

[dedanna1029]

The thing is too, if it works in Mint, it works in Ubuntu. *shrug

Steps I took:

1) Start-->Other-->Startup Applications
2) Add guake to the Startup list
3) Logout/login

I don't know why it isn't working for Arch.

[viking60]

I beg to differ:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1971584

[dedanna1029]

Strange, although there's like, two for two now. One in that thread too, that did the same as me and it worked. Very very strange.

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uname -a
Linux dedanna 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I'm on Linux Mint 12.04 as well.

[dedanna1029]

I just got this done, finally. It was only auto-starting at random in KDE on Mageia 2, and in Gnome fallback, Guake would crash on load. So, I reset the ~/.gconf/apps/guake folder, and will be logging out/in after a while. Stay tuned.

[dedanna1029]

Well, it works for KDE, but guake sitll only crashes in Gnome.

[viking60]

Have you tried the workaround in the first post? If you put a delay on quake startup it will probably work everywhere.
This happens when quake starts up before compiz is completely loaded.....It seems to load before all the dependencies are up and running.

[dedanna1029]

Yes, that is what I did, and why I'm posting to here. It works now in gnome-fallback, but not in gnome-shell. Guake crashes soon as I login to it.

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[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ cat /usr/bin/startguake.sh
#! /bin/sh

sleep 15
echo guake started: $(date) >> guake.log
guake

exit 0

Yet Gnome isn't honoring it (gnome-shell version).