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https://github.com/frank038/qt5autostart

Program to manage autostart applications.
https://github.com/frank038/qt5autostart

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Program to manage autostart applications.

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# qt5autostart
Program to manage autostart applications.

V. 0.9.1

Free to use and modify.

Require: python3, pyqt5, pyxdg.

With these two programs, autostart applications/desktop files found in the autostart folders will be executed, unless they are marked with Hidden=true. Applications can be added, removed, modified whether in the user autostart folder, while the application in the system folder (usually /etc/xdg/autostart) can be only setted as hidden (in the user autostart folder) to not to be executed.

Usage:
- python3 qt5autostart_gui.py (or ./qt5autostart_gui.py) to launch the program for managing the applications to be started automatically;
- python3 qt5autostart_tui.py (or ./qt5autostart_tui.py) to launch the application for executing the programs in the autostart folders, if the case
- qt5autostart.py is a lonely, previous program for executing programs (-tui option) and for managing them (-gui options); this program launches every programs, unless they don't have to be launched.

Just click in the checkboxes to unselect/select the items. Modifications are apply immediately. Instead, the remove button will show a confirmation dialog first.

Put the mouse over an item to get its description/comment and executable. In gui mode, this program cannot start or stop any programs.

The option in the config file:
- LOG_TO_FILE : the program can log all the tasks it made, programs executed from system and use folders, programs skipped, etc.;
- DEST_LOG : where to write the log.

![My image](https://github.com/frank038/qt5autostart/blob/main/screenshot1.png)