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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon HeyPuter

Run background apps at startup

Open Zac0511 opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

The user could open settings, and set some apps that are made to run in background to run when Puter starts. For example, if its an app that is supposed to alert the user that something happened somewhere (like on his NAS if he has one and has an app that can connect to it), those alerts would be working just after Puter has started. The programs could still get stopped from the task manager if needed, or removed from startup from the settings.

Zac0511 avatar May 25 '24 17:05 Zac0511

Good idea! It doesn't even have to just be background apps. On Linux I have a notes app that launches on startup too.

AtkinsSJ avatar May 29 '24 09:05 AtkinsSJ

Good idea! It doesn't even have to just be background apps. On Linux I have a notes app that launches on startup too.

Yeah, it could be for not-background apps too now that i think about that !

Zac0511 avatar May 30 '24 08:05 Zac0511

Would be a great feature to have, and happy to contribute.

As a starting point, does anyone know of a proper way to get an app to launch on startup? Even if there's no settings menu exposed to the user to enable/disable a startup app yet.

adamq-q avatar Dec 25 '24 15:12 adamq-q

Would be a great feature to have, and happy to contribute.

As a starting point, does anyone know of a proper way to get an app to launch on startup? Even if there's no settings menu exposed to the user to enable/disable a startup app yet.

Well the only way i know as of now is with the URL (https://puter.com/[app name])

Zac0511 avatar Dec 25 '24 20:12 Zac0511