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eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 813

Autostart Different Application X/Wayland

I'm looking for some ideas on how to do this cleanly. I will switch back and forth from X to Wayland occasionally but there are some applications that don't run in wayland and some won't run in X. I have chosen alternates for each login type but if I use the xfce4 autostart then some applications either won't run(ok) or will run in both environments(not preferable). Wayland/Labwc has a means of autostarting applications but if I use the normal autostart feature then all I have is an all or none scenario.

The one application I would start with is Tilda. A drop down terminal for X. On Wayland I chose Guake. Not really that great but it's the only on I could get to work consistently. The problem is guake runs on both X and Wayland so I just kill it while under X as I prefer Tilda.

Any Idea?

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Misko_2083

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Registered: 2015-10-13

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Re: Autostart Different Application X/Wayland

A simple wrapper script would do

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" == "wayland" ]]; then
    exec guake
else
    exec tilda
fi

Last edited by Misko_2083 (2025-11-27 13:44:29)

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trinidad

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2024-05-20

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Re: Autostart Different Application X/Wayland

Maybe a combination of the two?

https://github.com/shih-liang/tilda-way … 83763c3d93
https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/run-or-r … labwc/2147

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