How to make Yakuake and any other program start at OS Startup

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You can add an item in ~/.config/autostart, e.g Open ~/.config/autostart/myscript.desktop, and paste the following contents [Desktop Entry] Name=MyScript GenericName=A descriptive name Comment=Some description about your script Exec=/path/to/my/script.sh Terminal=false Type=Application X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true And make sure the script is executable.