How can I set a flatpak application to run on startup?

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I wanted to post this because I didn't find the answer elsewhere and this might just help someone else.

I have Slack installed on my Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver via FlatPak and would like to have it launch as soon as I login. Because it is installed via FlatPak, I cannot find it in /usr/share/applications in order to add it to startup applications

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You need to install FlatPak applications via Gnome Tweaks. If you haven't already installed Gnome tweaks then run

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Launch Gnome Tweaks and navigate to "Startup Applications".

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The flatPak applications are easily found from here.

user_3575220

You could add an entry to your .gnomerc, .Xinitrc etc such as

snap run (program)

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