Automatically start applications#

You can automatically start one or more applications, when the weston desktop starts up.

Within your desktop-config configuration file, add

autolaunch=<launcher name>

e.g.

autolaunch=myautostart

will add a launcher icon from launcher config myautostart.

Available premade autostarts#

Description

template

Screenshare start

autolaunch=autolaunch-screenshare

Create your own#

To create your own automatic startup configuration, create a file in /apps/desktop-config/config or /usr/share/desktop-config/config with the following content

[autolaunch]
path=<absolute path to your executable>

e.g.

[autolaunch]
path=/usr/bin/my-application

then save the file as myautostart.ini and configure it like mentioned above