How do I get KDEConnect to autostart in MX 21 Fluxbox [Solved]

[ceeslans]

Now, that was an easy fix!
Glad you were able to resolve the issue

[ceeslans]

@mowest : after reading up on some old bl-forum posts, found that you can write the 'sleep' command directly in ~/.fluxbox/startup:

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# if kdeconnect is installed, start the kdeconnect-indicator
if [ -x /usr/bin/kdeconnect-indicator ]; then
   sleep 5s && bash -c 'kdeconnect-indicator' &
fi

using the double ampersand instead of a single semicolon.
Makes it all a bit easier, huh?

[mowest]

@mowest : after reading up on some old bl-forum posts, found that you can write the 'sleep' command directly in ~/.fluxbox/startup:

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# if kdeconnect is installed, start the kdeconnect-indicator
if [ -x /usr/bin/kdeconnect-indicator ]; then
   sleep 5s && bash -c 'kdeconnect-indicator' &
fi

using the double ampersand instead of a single semicolon.
Makes it all a bit easier, huh?

Nice, I like having this in my startup script, and I used this modified bash if statement and it did work to automatically start kdeconnect-indicator after I logged into Fluxbox. This is just a little bit cleaner to have the code in the "startup" instead of calling a separate script. Thanks for the bash scripting insight.