xdg-autostart command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix xdg-autostart command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

xdg-autostart: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xdg-autostart: command not found

In Ubuntu xdg-autostart is provided by obsession package.

obsession is:

This package provides the following tools:

obsession-logout displays a dialog where you can choose if you want to quit the session, power off, suspend or hibernate the computer.
obsession-exit: this is the command line version of obsession-logout.
xdg-autostart start automatically programs defined in /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install obsession

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install obsession.

sudo apt -y install obsession

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install obsession

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xdg-autostart command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.