Run executable at system startup

[AndreiDodu]

Hello guys,

I am planning to create a GUI software for a terminal application, in particular for imwheel. This application needs to be runned at system startup. So I have the following questions:

• how I can configure the .yaml in order to be able to use the imwheel bin file? (it should be also installed and it needs the access to the user home directory)
• I want to create a snap that runs automatically imwheel or a .sh file at system startup. Which should be the configuration that I should add in the .yaml file?
• Do I need particular permissions?
• moreover, how I can run also my snap at startup (.yaml configuration) to show an icon in the taskbar that will allow a rapid access to the GUI?

Thank you.

[ogra]

Does this help for starting the app in the users session?

The snap format

This page documents the format of the built snaps. See The snapcraft format for more information about the snapcraft.yaml file used to build these snaps. A snap is a SquashFS file carrying content alongside metadata to tell the system how it should be manipulated. When installed, the SquashFS file for the snap is mounted read-only at the following location: /snap/<snap name>/<revision>/ This method delivers fast and extremely predictable installations, with no installat…

For anything you want to start system wide on boot you need to use a daemon: block in your apps entry

[AndreiDodu]

thanks for the response Oliver