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[Request]: Autorun application
Tell us the problem or your need
I'd like to autostart a program I always need
Describe the solution you'd like
To run the bottle at startup
Other solutions?
No response
Additional context and references
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What info do you need? For instance, if you want to autorun any bottle program, how would you do that? I know how it works in wine commandline, but how do you call a bottle from the commandline and run it?
I'm missing the "autorun" concept. I mean, are you talking about like running apps automatically when opening a bottle?
I'm missing the "autorun" concept. I mean, are you talking about like running apps automatically when opening a bottle?
No. I'd like the host (Linux) to start a bottle of my choice automatically on bootup. Not programs in the bottle to start other programs. Linux Starts program X in bottle X automatically. Application starts appears. Me happy.
A (temporary) solution is to just create a desktop entry with bottles of the application and then move the generated .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications to ~/.config/autostart, you may have to create the directory if it doesn't exist
I think this is the way to go, avoiding using a service. It seems to me a very specific feature, I don't know if it should be implemented or let the users create Desktop entries on their own.
I might add that the autostart directory depends. Is there a way to detect which autostart directory is currently the right one and give an option to save the .desktop file into that folder? might require temporary sudo access.
Every de should follow the ~/.config/autostart directory since I'm pretty sure that it's a desktop standard, the only extra permission bottles would need for that is read-write access to that directory if it's a flatpak. Additionally you could just use the tools of the de (gnome-tweaks if it's gnome) to add the application to autostart, assuming you've created the desktop entry.
Every de should follow the ~/.config/autostart directory since I'm pretty sure that it's a desktop standard, the only extra permission bottles would need for that is read-write access to that directory if it's a flatpak. Additionally you could just use the tools of the de (gnome-tweaks if it's gnome) to add the application to autostart, assuming you've created the desktop entry.
it depends. With xdg, its /etc/xdg/autostart https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/autostarting
Scroll all the way down to see different behaviors for different WM's
But wait, my ~/.config/autostart folder is populated as well. Why are some in /etc/xdg/autostart and some in ~/.config/autostart?
Arch based Distros like EndeavourOS seem to have /usr/share/applications for menu entries, /etc/xdg/autostart if used i3, and ~/.config/autostart folder which can be used, too
/etc/xdg/autostart is for system wide stuff, ~/.config/autostart is only for the user.
/usr/share/applications are desktop entries that are system wide, while ~/.local/share/applications is only for the user
I prefer to document the process in our documentation and avoid more holes in the flatpak