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