Re: Starting an application on login

[Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com>]

El Tue, 3 de Jun 2014 a las 9:03 PM, Eric Lavarde <Eric@Lavar.de> escribió:

Hi Daniel, On 3 June 2014 20:54:58 CEST, Daniel Lintott <daniel@serverb.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Mentors! I'm currently packaging a notification application, BuildNotify [1]. It only makes sense to start the application when the user logs in, which can be done using the $(HOME)/.config/autostart directory or adding an entry using the Startup Applications GUI. >From the packaging perspective, is this something we should do when the package is installed... or should it be left to the user to configure how they start it?

The thing is that a Linux system is potentially multi user, with users not interested in the application and others added after package installation, so the answer can only be that the users must configure it themselves.

XDG autostart provides for both of these scenarios. You can (and should) install the autostart entry in /etc/xdg/autostart/ for system wide starting of the tray icon. Individual users can disable the entry by making one with the same name in ~/.config/autostart/ with a single line, "Hidden=true", as the contents.

I think users installing this piece of software will expect it to be started at boot, and we should do just that.

Regards,

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Cameron