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Questions tagged [autostart]

A mechanism to start automatically a script or program as soon as the operating system or execution environment that executes it is ready.

In general terms, autostart is mechanism whereby a script or program is started automatically as soon as the operating system or execution environment that executes it is ready. The script or program to execute typically needs to be registered in some list of autostart programs.

A typical example of autostart feature is the , which starts a program on a medium as soon as the medium (such as CD or USB key) is inserted in the reading device.

Use this tag for questions about implementations of an autostart feature, or issues with autostarting a particular program.

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Android - How to Enable Autostart option programmatically in Xiaomi devices?

I am developing an android application in which I want to display the Push notification. It has displayed well in most of the devices except Xiaomi phones (I am using Redmi Note 4). The problem that I found is, it is because of Autostart option…
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How to auto start an application in openwrt?

I have created a shell with necessary functions such as start() stop() restart() But my file is not getting started at boot time. I have used update-rc.d command in "ubuntu" to add this file to the list of autostart applications. And it…
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How to create an auto startup c++ program

I am creating a program in c++, which I want to be able to have the option to have users let it auto start in windows. So when a user starts his computer, windows will auto start this program. I have read stuff about modifying the registry or…
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Auto start application after boot completed in Android

I want to make an application which has auto start option in its settings. I have made Settings activity in my application which is derived from PreferenceActivity and give CheckBoxPreference for auto start option. If auto start option is enabled my…
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Remove mysqld from autostart

I installed mysql via Homebrew using these instructions http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/installing-ruby-rails-and-mysql-on-os-x-lion. I also added it to the auto-start by using these commands: mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents cp…
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Inno-Setup: how to let the user choose whether to autostart or not?

According to this question I know how to put an application in the autostart folder without user interaction. But how can I let user decide if he wants that or not via checkbox?
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Run an R script at boot

First of all, this may need to be moved to superuser. I couldn't decide which venue was better. I am trying to write an R script that will run at boot/reboot and add that machine to a pool of doRedis workers. (doRedis is a foreach backend). Here is…
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WiX - start application after install

I read an article http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/run_program_after_install.htm and it works.
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Auto startup for java desktop application?

I have created a desktop application in Java using NetBeans 6.1 and made a jar file of the application. Now I want to make it automatically start up whenever a client's machine boots up. How do I do that?
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debugging /etc/init.d startup scripts in Ubuntu

Have custom dropr message queue pollers I'm trying to start up via /etc/init.d in ubuntu. All 3 scripts are super-simple one liners and work perfect via command line, but for some reason, only one of them actually works when the server boots up. All…
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How to launch an iphone app when an external accessory is either paired over BT or plugged into dock connector

I have researched this to death online and cannot find anything regarding auto launching an iphone app when an external accessory is either paired using BT or plugged into the dock connector. We are an MFi developer with a BT accessory and…
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docker-compose is starting containers after host reboot. Which ones?

I'm new to docker-compose. Before, when I started containers manually, after a host reboot I had to start the containers manually. Today I found that -after a host reboot- I had 4 containers running. Those were previously started with…
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How to auto start window service

I have a window service which i developed in c# (vs2008). please tell me what should i do to make it auto start after installation and also auto start on every time when system gets restarted. EDIT: I am using setup & deployment project to install…
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Swift 3 OS X app launch on startup

I just wrote my first application in Swift 3 for OS X. How can I configure this app to launch when the user logs in?
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Start "Chromium" automatically on booting the Pi3 with Raspbian JESSIE

I have a problem. My goal is that the browser will automatically start up in fullscreenmode and don't go to screensaver mode when I reboot the Pi. The Pi OS: Raspbian Jessie Version: September 2016 Kernel Version: 4.4 I already tried…
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