autostart confusion

[Jeremy Whiting]

Ok, from a bit more testing yesterday evening it seems all scripts put
into ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ work fine for startup, and in
~/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown/ for shutdown. These are correctly
shown in the kcm and are sourced at startup and shutdown. With that
solution there's probably no need for ~/.config/ksmserver-autostart or
whatnot. The way I see it this should be documented well, and the kcm
needs to be adjusted to not show scripts from ~/.config/autostart
since kinit wont be starting those.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:01:13 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> In kdelibs4 times one used to be able to put any script into
>> ~/.kde/Autostart/ make it executable and when startkde ran it would
>> launch those scripts. In kf5/plasma next time ~/.config/autostart
>> should be able to do likewise, but doesn't seem to. On one hand the
>> autostart kcm shows scripts there under a Scripts header and lets you
>> choose whether they should be ran at startup, or shutdown, or Pre-KDE
>> startup, yet they are never launched.
>>
>> I took a look at the kinit klauncher autostart code and it only ever
>> looked for .desktop files under these autostart paths, even in my
>> clone of kdelibs it never looked for anything without a .desktop
>> extension. How did launching of non .desktop file stuff ever work?
>
> Hmm. I've always put shell scripts that should be run on each start in
> ~/.kde/env. (IIRC all *.sh files in this folder are source'd by KDE
> start script.)
>
> What's the kf5-equivalent for this folder?
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo