How to autostart synergy on ubunutu 14.04?

Question

I am using synergy to share mouse and keyboard. I would like it to start automatically and have used the tutorial for this here.

I am new to ubuntu and cannot find this menu:

System Menu > Preferences > Startup Applications

So I tried the before logging in steps:

But I cannot find the file /etc/gdm/Init/Default

I have been able to find /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/ but there isn't anything of use there.

In /etc there is only /etc/gdb

Solution

You are making your life too difficult.

All I had to do:

• dash search for "startup applications".

To auto start the client place this in the command box:

synergyc [<host name or ip address>]

For server:

synergys

However this will not autostart synergy prior to login.

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Regarding auto-start see: https://askubuntu.com/a/196853/15811

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system Menu > Preferences > Startup Applications

This is Ubuntu prior to Unity so VERY old.

Comments

[tread]

Unforunately I cannot accept this answer as synergy shows up but you still hae to click the start button meaning I need another mouse connected to the pc just for this purpose

[Rinzwind]

Not when I do it. It shows in the panel and is usuable straight after boot. And I do not believe I made any changes to settings related to auto-starting (though I did mess around with settings a lot to get it to work :P )

[Rinzwind]

I found this on auto-starting: askubuntu.com/a/196853/15811