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Simone98RC

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From: Reggio Calabria, Italy

Registered: 2015-07-22

Posts: 22

Autostart apps lacking of service or cron job

Hi guys,
on my Arch machine I want to autostart apps natively lacking of systemd service or cron jobs (i.e. Pidgin, uGet, UMS, etc.).

Actually I'm using the built-in function of Cinnamon DE, but... if I decide to switch to another DE, I'll lost the setting for these apps.

So can you tell me if exists an independent package that do the same work?
Thanks much.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,541

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Re: Autostart apps lacking of service or cron job

Service files are ridiculously easy to write.  Just start up a systemd user session (if you don't have one yet), and make the service files you want:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User

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