Autostart doesn't work

[Bleuzen]

PulseEffects has this nice option to "Start Service at Login".
But when I toggle it on with the flatpak version, it creates the autostart file in
~/.var/app/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects/config/autostart
instead of
~/.config/autostart

Flatpak should have access to the real autostart directory to create the file there instead of in ~/.var.

Also within the autostart file,
Exec=pulseeffects --gapplication-service
has to be replaced with
Exec=com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects --gapplication-service

[TingPing]

Yea it can't work, you'll just have to manually add it for now.

There is discussion about Flatpak exposing this but no work has been done on it.

[wwmm]

The Exec=com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects --gapplication-service will require changes in PE sources. At this moment the exec field is hardcoded. It would be necessary to patch PE sources before building

[AsavarTzeth]

I don't see a point in trying to workaround this issue right now. Instead we need a proper autostart portal. See issue: flatpak/flatpak#118

Also read the comments in that issue as for why I cannot use --filesystem=xdg-config/autostart to grant access to the app itself.

For now it would probably be best to have a build time option for enabling/disabling this (and hiding it from the gui).

One might also document the limitation in the help files, and/or wiki and suggest how it can be done manually.

[iQmam0n]

I was able to start with the following change.
~/.config/autostart/pulseeffects-service.desktop

from:
Exec=pulseeffects --gapplication-service
to:
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=pulseeffects com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects --gapplication-service

[AsavarTzeth]

@iQmamOn Yes that is how you add it manually, for now.

[vchernin]

This is fixed in EasyEffects, successor to PulseEffects. I have no plans to try to backport the fix here, I think solving flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#579 is a better use of time as that means the background portal could be used on the host.

[1player]

This can be closed, I've been using EasyEffects with autostart for months and it's never failed me.