gutu
gutu
manages your desktop startup applications. Especially on standalone
window managers, it can be used to uniform the processes you need to run (e. g.
notification daemon, keybind handler etc)
Installation
Arch Linux (AUR)
gutu is available on the AUR
Prebuild release (all distros, binary only)
Download the binary from github.com/alexcoder04/gutu/releases/latest
and copy it to a directory in your $PATH
.
Other Distros (Make)
git clone "https://github.com/alexcoder04/gutu.git"
cd gutu
go build . # build the binary
go install . # install the executable to your $GOPATH
Usage
Auto-start gutu in your window manager / desktop environment startup: execute
gutu
. For configuring the services, see below.
Configuration
Every service file goes into a separate file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gutu
. These
files can have .service
, .yml
and .yaml
extensions.
Example service
# your name for the service
Name: compositor
Command: picom
Args: ["--experimental-backends"]
# restart if fails, at most 3 times
KeepAlive: true
RetryNumber: 3
# start only on Xorg
When: x11
# kill picom instances that are still running
KillOld: true
For more examples, see contrib
.
Configuration fields
Name # Name of service
Command # Command to run
Args # Arguments for the command (["-c", "arg1", "arg2"])
Interval # Re-run command periodically in this interval (in seconds, 0=never)
KeepAlive # Restart the command if it exits (true/false)
RetryNumber # How often try to restart the command (if KeepAlive=true)
When # wayland/x11/always/never
Delay # Number of seconds to wait before starting
KillOld # Kill running "Command" processes