How to autostart CopyQ with main window in foreground?

[orschiro]

Dear all,

I would like to autostart CopyQ with the main window being opened in the foreground on my Ubuntu 15.10 installation.

Any ideas how to do this?

By main window I refer to the one storing the tabs with the content.

Thankfully,

~Robert

[hluk]

There is no simple way to do this now. You can run copyq show after the application is started. So you can edit CopyQ's autostart file ~/.config/autostart/copyq.desktop and edit line starting with Exec= to following.

Exec=sh -c "copyq & sleep 1; copyq show"

(You may need to increase the sleep interval in the command.)

[orschiro]

Dear @Lukas,

Thanks for your workaround!

I guess it might actually work to add copyq show to the list of startup applications, correct?

Warmly,

~Robert

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On Apr 9 2016, at 7:33 am, Lukas Holecek <notifications@github.com> wrote:

There is no simple way to do this now. You can run copyq show after the application is started. So you can edit CopyQ's autostart file ~/.config/autostart/copyq.desktop and edit line starting with Exec= to following.

Exec=sh -c "copyq & sleep 1; copyq show"

(You may need to increase the sleep interval in the command.)

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[hluk]

You actually have to wait few milliseconds after copyq command so the "command server" can start. So perhaps you can add sleep 1; copyq show to start after the server.

[orschiro]

> sleep 1; copyq show to start after the server.

Nice addition. Thanks!

~Robert

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On Apr 11 2016, at 5:56 pm, Lukas Holecek <notifications@github.com> wrote:

You actually have to wait few milliseconds after copyq command so the "command server" can start. So perhaps you can add sleep 1; copyq show to start after the server.

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[orschiro]

Hi all,

I was experimenting with the above but it actually doesn't launch the main window.

Any ideas why this could not be working properly?

Thankfully,

~Robert

[hluk]

Hi Robert,

I think it should work if you set "Command" in "Startup Applications" dialog as following.

sh -c "copyq; sleep 2; copyq show"

Lukas

2016-04-27 10:16 GMT+02:00 Robert Orzanna notifications@github.com:

Hi all,

I was experimenting with the above but it actually doesn't launch the main window.

Any ideas why this could not be working properly?

Thankfully,

~Robert

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[orschiro]

Dear Lukas,

This does work.

Thank you so much! :+1:

~Robert