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Kando does not come with an automatic startup feature by default. However, you can easily configure your OS to start Kando automatically when you log in.

Windows

Section titled “ Windows”

To have Kando start automatically on Windows, you can add a shortcut to Kando in the “Startup” folder. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Press Windows + R to open the “Run” dialog.

  2. Type shell:startup and press Enter. This will open the “Startup” folder.

  3. Now create a shortcut to the Kando executable in this folder. There are multiple ways to do this:

    • From the Desktop: If you have a Kando shortcut on your desktop, simply copy and paste it into the “Startup” folder.
    • From the Start Menu: Open the Start Menu, find Kando in the list of applications, right-click on it, select “Open file location”, then copy the shortcut from there and paste it into the “Startup” folder.
    • Directly from the Executable: Navigate to the folder where Kando is installed, right-click on kando.exe, select “Create shortcut”, then move this shortcut to the “Startup” folder.

macOS

Section titled “ macOS”

On macOS, you can add Kando to your login items to have it start automatically when you log in. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open “System Settings” from the Apple menu.

  2. Go to “Users & Groups”.

  3. Select your user account and click on “Login Items”.

  4. Click the ”+” button and add Kando to the list.

Linux

Section titled “ Linux”

Most desktop environments on Linux come with a GUI to manage applications that should start on login. However, most of the time it is also possible to add startup applications manually by placing a .desktop file into ~/.config/autostart/.

So first, create this directory if it does not exist yet:

Terminal window
mkdir ~/.config/autostart

Then create a file named kando.desktop in this directory with the following content. The exec command depends on how you installed Kando. Here are three common options:

~/.config/autostart/kando.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Kando
Exec=/full/path/to/kando