Autostart is not working with flatpak install

[rpete3]

Autostart is not working with flatpak install

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Preferences'
2. Click on 'autostart' checkbox
3. reboot
4. CopyQ does not start automatically and ~/.config/autostart does not have an entry for copyq

Expected behavior
CopyQ should start automatically.

Version, OS and Environment

• Application Version 6
• OS Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
• Desktop environment, Gnome shell 42.9

[hluk]

Maybe the reason is that I removed --filesystem=xdg-config/autostart:create from the flatpak spec (last year). I think it was because the linter complained: flathub/com.github.hluk.copyq@480fb36

[hluk]

Maybe the reason is that I removed --filesystem=xdg-config/autostart:create from the flatpak spec (last year). I think it was because the linter complained: flathub/com.github.hluk.copyq@480fb36

Yup, that's the reason. All works if I start the flatpak app with the following command:

flatpak run --filesystem=xdg-config/autostart:create com.github.hluk.copyq

Let me try to revert the change in the spec file.

[hluk]

So the linter still doesn't allow me to use this. I think what it means is that it should not be handled by the application itself: flathub-infra/flatpak-builder-lint#87

[rpete3]

So the linter still doesn't allow me to use this. I think what it means is that it should not be handled by the application itself: flathub/flatpak-builder-lint#87

So you are telling me we can’t use the preferences in CopyQ to activate autostart? The recommended way is to pass the —filesystem option to create it? That’s not very user friendly.

[hluk]

So the linter still doesn't allow me to use this. I think what it means is that it should not be handled by the application itself: flathub/flatpak-builder-lint#87

So you are telling me we can’t use the preferences in CopyQ to activate autostart? The recommended way is to pass the —filesystem option to create it? That’s not very user friendly.

The recommended way seems to be to configure the autostart in your desktop environment (for example: https://code.whatever.social/questions/64444987/how-can-i-set-a-flatpak-application-to-run-on-startup).

I'm not very familiar with all this, but I cannot now configure the flatpak app to access ~/.config/autostart/ anyway due to the linter not accepting the spec with --filesystem=xdg-config/autostart:create before building the flatpak.