Autostart Apps in Phosh

I was wondering how to automatically start applications after booting a PinePhone with Phosh. Sounds like the standard way is to put .desktop files into ~/.config/autostart.

So to automatically start e.g. Gajim when Phosh starts, do this:

mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
cp /usr/share/applications/org.gajim.Gajim.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

My motivation was to automatically start Gajim so that 1) I don’t forget to do it and 2) it unlocks the Default password storage (it prompts for the master password) right after reboot.

Related

• /usr/share/applications stores the currently installed .desktop application launcher files
• ArchWiki: XDG Autostart specifies the ~/.config/autostart directory
• ArchWiki: Desktop entries has info on the .desktop files