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SYSTEM...NERATOR(8) systemd-xdg-autostart-generator SYSTEM...NERATOR(8)
systemd-xdg-autostart-generator - User unit generator for XDG
autostart files
/usr/lib/systemd/user-generators/systemd-xdg-autostart-generator
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= │ ExecCondition= using │
│ (GNOME 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).
systemd(1), systemd.service(5), systemd.target(5)
1. XDG autostart
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
manager) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
systemd 258~rc2 SYSTEM...NERATOR(8)
Pages that refer to this page: systemd.directives(7), systemd.generator(7), systemd.index(7), systemd.special(7)
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