Autostart client on Linux
If we drop bitmask.desktop file into the directory ~/.config/autostart/ then Bitmask will autostart when the user logs in.
I propose this for the rules for autostart:
(1) whenever the app is started, we create the file ~/.config/autostart/bitmask.desktop if it does not already exist.
(2) whenever the application is quit via a UI command (like going to the menu and saying quit), then we remove the autostart file before quitting.
(3) whenever the application is quit by other means (got a signal to quit) we leave the autostart file in place. the assumption being that this halt was caused by a restart or logout.
This will make autostart work like the VPN state: instead of a configuration option we simply restore what the prior state was when the user logs in.
I think that we should probably autostart the app minimized. This can be achieved by specifying a different Exec= than the normal .desktop file.
For example:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=Bitmask Comment=Secure Communication Exec=bitmask --start-hidden Terminal=false Icon=bitmask
This, of course, depends on the application supporting --start-hidden.
I have deleted the other autostart related issues pertaining to Linux.
(from redmine: created on 2014-01-16, closed on 2014-07-25, duplicates #5867, blocks #4990 (closed))