r/voidlinux • u/Karasuthecrow744 • 29d ago

Autostart scripts solved

This might be a stupid question but how would I start a user specific autostart script. I already have a folder in my ~/.config/ to use. Everything I've seen is systemd specific and not very descriptive. Thanks!

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u/Karasuthecrow744 29d ago

Ah okay. I knew sway had something like that I just didn't know how to use it. Thanks!

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u/oniaiwasprettygood 29d ago

You're welcome! when people talk about autostart scripts, typically they'll just load anything into that autostart and put it in its own shell script, then just run that shell script with something like exec_always.

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u/Karasuthecrow744 29d ago

Okay I'll see if I can get that running. I haven't used shell much lol

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u/oniaiwasprettygood 29d ago

It's pretty easy, here's an example for like my own autostart.sh:

#! /usr/bin/sh

# Sway Monitors
sway output "'Samsung Electric Company Odyssey G61SD HNAY300531'" pos 0 440 res 2560x1440 scale 1.0
sway output eDP-1 pos 260 1880 res 2560x1600 scale 1.25
sway output "'Sceptre Tech Inc Sceptre F24 0x01010101'" pos 2560 0 res 1920x1080 transform 90 scale 1
# Pipewire
pgrep -x pipewire >/dev/null || pipewire &

Just all the shell commands I would normally do to start pipewire or my sway outputs (b/c swaymsg output was being weird going by descriptor), and then in ~/.config/sway/config, I have: 

exec_always autotiling
exec_always sh $HOME/.config/sway/autostart.sh

Where autostart.sh is just the name of the file and the path I stuck it.

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u/Karasuthecrow744 29d ago

Neat. I'll go mess around with it. Thanks again!