gutu manages your desktop startup applications. Especially on standalone
window managers, it can be used to uniform the way you handle the processes you
need to run (e. g. notification daemon, keybind handler etc)
gutu is available on the AUR.
Download the binary from github.com/alexcoder04/gutu/releases/latest
and copy it to a directory in your $PATH.
git clone "https://github.com/alexcoder04/gutu.git"
cd gutu
go build . # build the binary
go install . # install the executable to your $GOPATHAuto-start gutu in your window manager / desktop environment startup: execute
gutu. For configuring the services, see below.
Every service file goes into a separate file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gutu. These
files can have .service, .yml and .yaml extensions.
# your name for the service
Name: compositor
Command: picom
Args: ["--experimental-backends"]
# restart if fails, at most 3 times
KeepAlive: true
RetryNumber: 3
# start only on Xorg
When: x11
# kill picom instances that are still running
KillOld: trueFor more examples, see contrib.
Name # Name of service
Command # Command to run
Args # Arguments for the command (["-c", "arg1", "arg2"])
Interval # Re-run command periodically in this interval (in seconds, 0=never)
KeepAlive # Restart the command if it exits (true/false)
RetryNumber # How often try to restart the command (if KeepAlive=true)
When # "wayland" / "x11" / "always" / "never"
Delay # Number of seconds to wait before starting
KillOld # Kill running "Command" processes