I just returned to using the Variety package, which manages wallpapers, to regularly change my wallpaper. It generally works fine, but I somehow just can’t get it to automatically start whenever I lock in. I check the “Start Variety when the computer starts” option in Variety itself, and it doesn’t seem to do anything. I try to go to the “Startup Applications” part of the Control Center and add Variety manually there, and whenever I reboot, afterwards, it has disappeared from the list.
Any ideas?
You could create a "Desktop" file for "Variety" and drop that icon in the folder
~/.config/autostart/
That should fix the problem.
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Sorry, I already tried that. No dice.
installed variety, it popped a msg that it configured for autostart.
Rebooted pc.
Panel shows an icon like a display and click on that gives me a bunch of options.
ps -ef shows variety runs
user 2522 1855 0 13:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/user/.config/variety/
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I think I might have solved the mystery - or perhaps it has deepened. I’m not sure. Turns out I had somehow lost all access rights to my own ~/.config/autostart/ folder. Once I restored those rights, things started to work as intended.
However, I have no idea how I lost access to that folder in the first place.
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You likely did stuff as root/sudo rather than basic user, when you performed the operation to create the folder or file under '~/.config/autostart/' .
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