Autostarting picom and polybar when launching Frankenwm

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Hi,
so I've just installed FrankenWM and love it so far, very fast and minimal window manager, but is there any way to autostart applications or daemons like picom, polybar, emacsclient etc. in FrankenWM with a shell script or in the config itself? Im not very experienced in C so I don't know if this is a stupid question.

Thanks a million in advance

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David Burns ***@***.***> writes:

Hi, so I've just installed FrankenWM and love it so far, very fast and minimal window manager, but is there any way to autostart applications or daemons like picom, polybar, emacsclient etc. in FrankenWM with a shell script or in the config itself? Im not very experienced in C so I don't know if this is a stupid question. Thanks a million in advance

Hey, There's currently no builtin way of launching additional applications, though this is a design decision and not a technical limitation. If you wanted to it would be trivial to hack into in, see man 3 exec. What you probably want to do is start any additional applications via either your ~/.profile or using some other kind of launch agent, eg. using a systemd service[0], depending on your system and application. This also prevents crashing/restarting the window manager from killing all child processes. [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd#Writing_unit_files

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-- Robin

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Hi,

thanks for the response, it worked. I didn't know this was an option as well.