How can I start an app before session start?

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I'm using KDE Plasma, and every time I log in, I have to wait a log time for my latte-dock to start. How can I make my latte-dock start before the gui is displayed?

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Before the GUI is displayed?

You can search for Autostart and add it there.

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Latte-dock depends on the gui(plasma-desktop). What you ask is technically impossible insane :wink:
But if you find a way to do it, I would appreciate your feedback!

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This is the classic X/Y problem as @jonathon is so fond of referencing. The user is simply asking the wrong question as a workaround to the real issue. The real issue is the bug Latte has been experiencing. Rolling back to a prior version of Latte would be a more workable (temporary) fix.

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I see you mention about the latte's bug... Can I know more about it?

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That's preposterous. You want them to go and do their own searching?!? Get out of here. Is this some kind of third world distro?! What are we even paying for?

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Preload may be of help, who knows?

regards

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If plasma-desktop is not started, then latte-dock is lost in chaos goes to background and does not show up, so you have to kill it and restart it.
It’s CATCH22 (I like this reference :laughing: ).
I was having the opposite problem, trying to make latte start later and added sleep 2 to make it work :wink:

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I think I’ve found what makes my latte dock starts so slow… I disable autostart of libinput-gestures, then when I reboot and login next time, the latte dock starts up like a rocket — it almost starts as the same time as I saw the gui. So, here comes another problem:

I’ve found the real issue. How can I make libinput-gestures autostart after latte-dock, or just make it starts quickier?

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My default method for everything is to use a systemd service. you could unload your trackpads driver/module at boot, then have it sleep for 5 seconds after login, then reload the module. Not an easy service to write if your unfamiliar with systemd.

Perhaps someone else has an easier more straightforward suggestion.

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I did not familiar with systemd, and that seems too complicated to me... And I've tried login script, but that will just make me stuck in the splash screen for 1 minute.