systemd-xdg-autostart-generator(8)

.SH "NAME" systemd-xdg-autostart-generator - User unit generator for XDG autostart files

.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.PP /usr/lib/systemd/user-generators/systemd-xdg-autostart-generator

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP 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) .

.PP 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.

.PP 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.

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Table 1.  Special XDG desktop file entries that are processed

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

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP systemd(1), systemd.service(5), systemd.target(5)