Add support for snap autostart option #4237
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Add support for `autostart` snap option. This allows snaps to define that they should be launched upon login.
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* Small cleanup of Snap documentation * Note that summary defaults to the productName * Document autoStart option from #4237
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Add support for
autostartsnap option. This allows snaps to define that they should be launched upon login.See https://snapcraft.io/docs/snap-format:
Basically, this just needs to set the value of
autostartto the name of the.desktopfile that is created in$SNAP_USER_DATA/.config/autostart. E.g. an "myapp" withsnap/myapp/current/.config/autostart/myapp.desktopshould have anautostartofmyapp.desktop. The snap autostart helper will then pick this up and launch the app on login.For other package formats on linux I can simply use https://github.com/Teamwork/node-auto-launch, however this does not work for snaps. Hardcoding the value into the snap config itself is not ideal given autolaunch then can't be turned off, but at least this way you can turn it on at all if required.
I have tested this with my application and it is working perfectly.