Onset

A lightweight GTK4/libadwaita application for managing XDG autostart entries on Linux.

Features

• View autostart entries from your user directory
• Create new entries from installed applications or custom commands
• Edit entries — modify name, command, comment, and startup delay
• Enable/Disable entries without deleting them
• Startup delay — optionally delay application startup
• XDG compliant — follows freedesktop.org specifications

Installation

Arch Linux (Quick Install)

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xPathin/onset/main/install_arch.sh)

Arch Linux (AUR)

• Coming soon

From Source

# Dependencies (Arch)
sudo pacman -S gtk4 libadwaita rust

# Build
cargo build --release

# Install
sudo install -Dm755 target/release/onset /usr/bin/onset
sudo install -Dm644 data/com.github.xPathin.onset.desktop /usr/share/applications/com.github.xPathin.onset.desktop
sudo install -Dm644 data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.xPathin.onset.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.xPathin.onset.svg

Usage

Launch onset from your application menu or terminal.

• Toggle switch — Enable/disable an entry
• Edit button — Modify entry settings
• Delete button — Remove the entry
• + button — Add a new autostart entry
• Refresh button — Reload entries from disk

Dependencies

• GTK 4.12+
• libadwaita 1.4+

License

MIT