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Running a script after the gui has loaded

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I know how to run a program on boot, on login (System > Preferences > Startup Applications) or on opening a shell (.bashrc). I also did read "execute script after desktop loaded?". What I realized that every application added to Startup Applications extends the time until the desktop becomes usable. So I'm looking for a way to start all the "nice to haves" from a script (got that working) that runs after the regular startup is finished.

I'm not fully clear how to get there. Would I use a second script that calls the first one with & (so it runs in the background) and add a wait for (a few seconds|specific event) to the first one?

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answered 3 Years ago truwom · Accepted Answer

If you're going to launch something expensive, launch it in the background with a delay. For example

after 20s find-all-the-dirty-dishes &

after 1m find ~ -name '*~' -mtime +30 -exec rm '{}' ';'

where you will have to implement after yourself but it can be something like this

#!/bin/sh

sleep "$1"

shift

exec "$@"