gutu

gutu manages your desktop startup applications. Especially on standalone window managers, it can be used to uniform the way you handle 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 (build from source)

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