Manual: systemd-xdg-autostart-generator

SYSTEMD-XDG-AUTOSTART-GENERATOR(8)     systemd-xdg-autostart-generator	  SYSTEMD-XDG-AUTOSTART-GENERATOR(8)

NAME
       systemd-xdg-autostart-generator - User unit generator for XDG autostart files

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/systemd/user-generators/systemd-xdg-autostart-generator

DESCRIPTION
       systemd-xdg-autostart-generator is a generator that creates .service units for XDG autostart[1]
       files. This permits desktop environments to delegate startup of these applications to systemd(1) .

       Units created by systemd-xdg-autostart-generator can be started by the desktop environment using
       "xdg-desktop-autostart.target". See systemd.special(7) for more details.

       XDG autostart may be conditionalized using both standardized and non-standardized keys. In order to
       handle these, the generator may create one or more ExecCondition= entries. For non-standardized keys,
       well-known helper binaries provided by Desktop Environments are used. All external helpers must
       detect their corresponding desktop environment and must return success when run in a different
       environment. This is important as all ExecCondition= directives must succeed for an application to be
       started.

       Table 1.	 Special XDG desktop file entries that are processed
       ┌────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
       │ Entry			    │ Handling				  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ Hidden=, X-systemd-skip=   │ No service will be generated if set │
       │			    │ to true				  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ OnlyShowIn=, NotShowIn=    │ ExecCondition= using		  │
       │			    │ systemd-xdg-autostart-condition	  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ TryExec=		    │ No service will be generated if the │
       │			    │ binary does not exist or cannot be  │
       │			    │ executed				  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ AutostartCondition= (GNOME │ ExecCondition= using		  │
       │ extension)		    │ gnome-systemd-autostart-condition	  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=   │ No service will be generated if set │
       │			    │ to any value			  │
       ├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ X-KDE-autostart-condition= │ ExecCondition= using		  │
       │			    │ kde-systemd-start-condition	  │
       └────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       systemd-xdg-autostart-generator implements systemd.generator(7).

SEE ALSO
       systemd(1), systemd.service(5), systemd.target(5)

NOTES
	1. XDG autostart
	   https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html

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