Select “Application in Terminal” for the Type.

Right-click on the Ubuntu desktop and select “Create Launcher.”.

If you want to create a similar launcher, follow these steps: This way I can start it with just a double-click of the mouse instead of launching the terminal and typing in the command. a shortcut for us Windows folks) on the Ubuntu desktop for the Terminal command to start XAMPP. To get around this, I created a simple launcher (i.e. XAMPP needs to be manually restarted the next time I use the VM, which can be a little tedious after a while. Running VirtualBox takes up a significant amount of RAM, so I like to shut it down when I’m not using it. Over time I’ve developed a few simple tips that make my workflow a little more efficient, so I wanted to share them with anyone else who read my previous tutorial on setting up a VM as a WordPress development environment. I do most of my WordPress development using a combination of VirtualBox and Ubuntu. To verify that XAMPP starts automatically at the startup, reboot the system.Īfter reboot, open the terminal and run the following command.This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series WordPress Development Environment. Technically, we created a custom service through the script file and instructed Ubuntu to start this service at the startup. Once the script file is created, run the following command to instruct Ubuntu to execute it at the startup.

Unless you are an experienced Linux user, I highly recommend you to simply ignore these warning messages.

You have three choices to deal with these warning messages update the gedit to fix the bug, use other text editor to create the script file such as the vim and nano or ignore these messages.Ĭreating a script file from other text editors is not as simple and straightforward as creating it from the gedit. More information about this bug is available here. There is a known bug in the gedit text editor which displays these warning messages. You may get the following warning messages at the terminal.

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