How to add and remove applications from Ubuntu startup

Since the appearance of Windows Messenger 7, I remember that managing the applications that loaded at startup became essential. In Windows, this process is relatively easy since either we mark it in the application options or we open the graphical tool to do it from the graphical interface. But, in Ubuntu How do I add and remove applications from System Startup?

In Ubuntu unlike many other distributions, such a process is easy and currently except for lightweight desks, which have a more difficult process to carry out this task, the management is done from a single or similar application, so knowing how it is modified on a certain desktop, we will know how to do it on the others.

To manage startup applications, in Ubuntu there is the application "Startup Applications"Once clicked, a window will load us like this

where it shows us the applications that are loaded at the beginning, how to remove or add them and edit the ones that we have ready.

Add and remove an application at System Startup

We open the program "Startup Applications”And click the add button. Now a small window will appear that has three fields, just like this:

In the first field, the upper one, we write the name of the application; In the center field, the one next to the examine button, we write the executable to start the program, for the most novices, it is similar to running the application in a terminal, you can also search through our hard drive, remember which are always in the bin folders, we almost always find them in / usr / bin or usr / sbin. The lower field is to have a description of the program that is running.

The good thing about this method is that if we want we can create a script, mark it with Nautilus as an executable file and add it to System Startup. Game gives, now only imagination is missing Do not you think?