Autostart "script" doesn't work. How to debug?

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Hi,

I tried to create an auto-start script:

$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/81-openproject.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=81-openproject
Comment=Startet den OpenProject Server
Exec=/usr/bin/systemctl start docker; cd /var/www/openproject/compose; /usr/bin/docker-compose up -d
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

It doens’t work. The openproject server isn’t running. I also created a bash alias

alias start-openproject="sudo systemctl start docker; cd /var/www/openproject/compose; sudo docker-compose up -d"

That works. So, I don’t know where the problem is and how to debug this. Any help appreciated.

Regards

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Make sure it is executable: sudo chmod +x /etc/xdg/autostart/81-openproject.desktop. Also consider putting it in ~/.config/autostart. One more also that you can make this thing a systemd service and enable it.

You probably don’t need sudo anywhere in the alias.

3

*.desktop files should never be executable …

Since docker comes with a systemd service, why not enable it the proper way then?
systemctl enable docker.service

So, next reboot it will start … then you use only the needed command for whatever you want to achieve. (unclear to me at this point)

4

If it is intended to be launched only for your user, or if you are the single user, it may be more relevant indeed.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Autostart

5

KDE asks me if a trust the file or not before running. But making the .desktop file executable removes that step. Anyway @xps you can go through this Docker - ArchWiki