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Specification

Tomboy and the desktop IM client (Empathy, Pidgin, etc.) should autostart after being launched.

Implementation

These programs should write a .desktop file to ~/.config/autostart if they are executed via the menu. If the user explicitly chooses "Quit", remove the file.

Is that it?

Or, "why just those two?". Admittedly, there isn't a clear-cut line to what programs should behave this way, and which should not. Here is an attempt at some guidelines:

Outstanding issues

How will this interact with systems that ship e.g. Tomboy as started by default? If we still wanted the Quit menu to work above, we'd need a way actually for programs to anti-autostart.

Further reading

See SessionManagement for more information about session work.


2024-10-23 11:37