Autostart programs/scripts in Debian 8 Jessie

Question

I have a scipt (.sh) for screen rotation of my thinkpad on linux. I have now installed Debian 8 Jessie and the "Startup Applications" is no longer there, how can I make it to startup on boot? or user login?

I have already tried: 1. Create a .desktop for the script and copy it to ~/.config/autostart 2. Copy the script in ~/.config/autostart 3. Create a symlink to the script in ~/.config/autostart

Solution 1

You could also add your script to cron and schedule it to be launched on each reboot. To do this, open the file in an editor:

nano /etc/crontab

Then add the following line to the end.

@reboot root /path/to/script.sh

Afterwards just reboot and it should work.

Solution 2

If it is reliant on the x-server, then you could add it to $HOME/.xinitrc. (I think this is the correct answer)

If it can run without a graphical user interface then put it in the login script ($HOME/.zlogin for zsh).

By "it" I mean:

bash /path/to/script          #This should be the same as using the following:
#sh /path/to/script           #if it uses #!/usr/bin/sh
#python /path/to/script.py    #if it uses #!/usr/bin/python
#perl /path/to/script.pl      #if it uses #!/usr/bin/perl
#etc