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How to delay a program such as cairo-dock (No openGL) or Firefox?

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How to delay a program such as cairo-dock (No openGL) or Firefox?

Sometimes programs crash when started with other startup apps. I want programs to start 10 seconds late to avoid a crash.

configuration startup cairo-dock

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How to delay a program such as cairo-dock (No openGL) or Firefox?

Sometimes programs crash when started with other startup apps. I want programs to start 10 seconds late to avoid a crash.

configuration startup cairo-dock

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Delaying autostart with inbuilt delay option

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Note: Only works with desktop sessions that recognize the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delayparameter (e.g. Unity, Unity2D, GNOME). This will not work for LXDE, XFCE, KDE, etc.

---

With this solution there's no need for a script or sleep. Head to your autostart folder:

nautilus ~/.config/autostart

Find the .desktop file that corresponds with your application and open it in a text editor, e.g. gedit:

gedit ~/.config/autostart/application.desktop

Append the following line to the file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=foo

where foo is the time in seconds you want to delay the application launch by, e.g.:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60

Save the file, relog and you should see the effects.

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  This works very well in both ubuntu 12.04 and in 12.10-development release using Gnome-shell 3.6
  
  – bmbaker
  Oct 7 '12 at 18:01
  

  
  
  
  


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  Works in Ubuntu 18.04.
  
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Try this: bash -c "sleep 10 && firefox"

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You could try to change the command to this:

sleep 10 && firefox

Some people say it works, some say it doesn't, if this is your case, and it does not work, you can try with:

xterm -e 'sleep 10 && firefox'

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I had to use this to get it to work for skype: sh -c "sleep 10 && skype &" in Ubuntu 12.04

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48

Delaying autostart with inbuilt delay option

---

Note: Only works with desktop sessions that recognize the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delayparameter (e.g. Unity, Unity2D, GNOME). This will not work for LXDE, XFCE, KDE, etc.

---

With this solution there's no need for a script or sleep. Head to your autostart folder:

nautilus ~/.config/autostart

Find the .desktop file that corresponds with your application and open it in a text editor, e.g. gedit:

gedit ~/.config/autostart/application.desktop

Append the following line to the file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=foo

where foo is the time in seconds you want to delay the application launch by, e.g.:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60

Save the file, relog and you should see the effects.

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  This works very well in both ubuntu 12.04 and in 12.10-development release using Gnome-shell 3.6
  
  – bmbaker
  Oct 7 '12 at 18:01
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Works in Ubuntu 18.04.
  
  – Ives
  Jul 3 '18 at 13:50
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
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48

Delaying autostart with inbuilt delay option

---

Note: Only works with desktop sessions that recognize the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delayparameter (e.g. Unity, Unity2D, GNOME). This will not work for LXDE, XFCE, KDE, etc.

---

With this solution there's no need for a script or sleep. Head to your autostart folder:

nautilus ~/.config/autostart

Find the .desktop file that corresponds with your application and open it in a text editor, e.g. gedit:

gedit ~/.config/autostart/application.desktop

Append the following line to the file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=foo

where foo is the time in seconds you want to delay the application launch by, e.g.:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60

Save the file, relog and you should see the effects.

share|improve this answer

edited May 29 at 14:13

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  This works very well in both ubuntu 12.04 and in 12.10-development release using Gnome-shell 3.6
  
  – bmbaker
  Oct 7 '12 at 18:01
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Works in Ubuntu 18.04.
  
  – Ives
  Jul 3 '18 at 13:50
  

  
  
  
  

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Delaying autostart with inbuilt delay option

---

Note: Only works with desktop sessions that recognize the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delayparameter (e.g. Unity, Unity2D, GNOME). This will not work for LXDE, XFCE, KDE, etc.

---

With this solution there's no need for a script or sleep. Head to your autostart folder:

nautilus ~/.config/autostart

Find the .desktop file that corresponds with your application and open it in a text editor, e.g. gedit:

gedit ~/.config/autostart/application.desktop

Append the following line to the file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=foo

where foo is the time in seconds you want to delay the application launch by, e.g.:

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60

Save the file, relog and you should see the effects.

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nautilus ~/.config/autostart

gedit ~/.config/autostart/application.desktop

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=foo

X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60

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Try this: bash -c "sleep 10 && firefox"

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Try this: bash -c "sleep 10 && firefox"

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answered Mar 2 '11 at 10:03

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  10x a lot, why does just sleep 10 && firefox not work?
  
  – user3804598
  Jan 2 '18 at 20:43
  

  
  
  
  

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Try this: bash -c "sleep 10 && firefox"

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answered Mar 2 '11 at 10:03

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You could try to change the command to this:

sleep 10 && firefox

Some people say it works, some say it doesn't, if this is your case, and it does not work, you can try with:

xterm -e 'sleep 10 && firefox'

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 2 '11 at 8:10

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You could try to change the command to this:

sleep 10 && firefox

Some people say it works, some say it doesn't, if this is your case, and it does not work, you can try with:

xterm -e 'sleep 10 && firefox'

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 2 '11 at 8:10

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You could try to change the command to this:

sleep 10 && firefox

Some people say it works, some say it doesn't, if this is your case, and it does not work, you can try with:

xterm -e 'sleep 10 && firefox'

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answered Mar 2 '11 at 8:10

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sleep 10 && firefox

xterm -e 'sleep 10 && firefox'

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I had to use this to get it to work for skype: sh -c "sleep 10 && skype &" in Ubuntu 12.04

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I had to use this to get it to work for skype: sh -c "sleep 10 && skype &" in Ubuntu 12.04

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I had to use this to get it to work for skype: sh -c "sleep 10 && skype &" in Ubuntu 12.04

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