Manage applications that autostart for the current user

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Autostart Manager

A utility program to manage applications that automatically start using the XDG Autostart specification.

Note

You may need to restart for changes to apply to autostart.

Warning

Some applications are prevented from autostarting in some desktop environments and Autostart Manager cannot prevent this behavior.

Installation

makepkg -sic

On x86_64:

dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -c Release
install -Dm755 bin/Release/net10.0/linux-x64/publish/autostartmgr -t /usr/bin

On aarch64:

dotnet publish -r linux-arm64 -c Release
install -Dm755 bin/Release/net10.0/linux-arm64/publish/autostartmgr -t /usr/bin

View help information

autostartmgr --help

List autostart applications

autostartmgr list

List available system applications

autostartmgr list -s

List available Flatpak (system) applications

autostartmgr list -f

Add Steam (system) to autostart

autostartmgr add steam

Add Discord (Flatpak) to autostart

autostartmgr add -f com.discordapp.Discord

Remove Steam (system) from autostart

autostartmgr remove steam