How do i autostart programs?

[alina]

when i start my laptop, i want Firefox and Konsole to automatically start and tile. How does that work?

[Aragorn]

Assuming Plasma as your desktop environment, you can add them in System Settings to…

Workspace → Startup and Shutdown → Autostart

However, for the tiling you will have to create a window rule for each.

[winnie]

@Aragorn

Assuming Plasma as your desktop environment

And that’s your mistake right there. Assuming.

Just because they posted under Support → KDE Plasma, and just because their profile says KDE Plasma, and just because they’re using Konsole, a native KDE application, you shouldn’t be quick to ded-, oh… OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… okay, now I see it.

[alina]

how do i make window rules?

[winnie]

Assuming Plasma as your desktop environment,

go to Menu → System Settings → Workspace → Window Management → Window Rules

[Aragorn]

@winnie

Just because they posted under Support → KDE Plasma

They did not. The thread was posted under Support. I moved it to KDE Plasma myself.

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@alina

how do i make window rules?

The generic way…

System Settings → Workspace → Window Management → Window Rules → Add New…

The easier way…: Start the applications you want to apply a rule to, resize them and move them to where you want them, and then right-click their title bar. Then select…

More Actions → Configure Special Window Settings…

You’ll see a button to auto-detect the current window properties. Click the button and then left-click the application window whose properties you want to detect. Check whether everything is as desired ─ e.g. size, placement, et al ─ and then save the result as a new window rule by clicking OK.

[alina]

i didn’t even know support:plasma existed
thanks though

[winnie]

@Aragorn

They did not. The thread was posted under Support. I moved it to KDE Plasma myself.

Yes, but I assumed that they originally poste-, ohhhhh, OHHHHHHH, okay I see what I just did.