Section 8 · System administration
systemd-xdg-autostart-generator.8
Package: systemd
SYSTEMD−XDG−AUTOSTART−GENERATOR
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
NOTES
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 extension) | ExecCondition= using 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