Other Sway/wayland , starting mate-panel on startup

[Alain De Vos]

I want to auto-start mate-panel when starting sway.

 

[eternal_noob]

I don't know sway but https://thomas-leister.de/en/sway-window-manager/ says:

Your autostart applications such as cloud sync daemons and other utilities are added to the Sway configuration like this:

exec nextcloud

… where “nextcloud” is an example of a application to start after login.

Maybe https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/gnhv7t/autostart_programs/ helps too.

 

[Alain De Vos]

"exec mate-panel" works

 

[Alain De Vos]

But how do you start two programs at startup ?

 

[eternal_noob]

Some dude in the Reddit thread i linked uses

exec swaymsg "workspace 1; exec kitty;"
exec swaymsg "workspace 1; exec google-chrome;"
exec swaymsg "workspace 2; exec thunderbird;"
exec swaymsg "workspace 3; exec hexchat;"
exec swaymsg "workspace 3; exec teams;"

If this doesn't work i'd use a shell script and start that.

 

[Alain De Vos]

It seems i missed your answer, or in other words i was reading too quickly.

 

[eternal_noob]

No worries, it happens to the best of us.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Trying starting multiple applications let sway always crash in my case, even in a script. Probably a small sway bug.

 

[memreflect]

exec_always xterm& xterm& gives me two xterm windows when I load/reload my i3 config because the exec line is passed to the shell, where '&' will launch the programs in the background. Maybe Sway allows you to do something similar?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Thanks for the idea.
But
"exec xterm& xterm&"
makes sway hang during startup.
So it really looks like a bug.