Solaar insists on opening a window at login

[electriceccentric]

Information

• Solaar version: 1.0.3
• Distribution: Debian 10 (Buster), Gnome
• Kernel version: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hello, I'm on Debian running version 1.0.3 and for some reason although I know Solaar is suppose to start with the window hidden it doesn't. I was previously running version 1.0.1 and didn't have this problem, it ran in the background with a icon in the top panel of Gnome like it should. I even tried multiple times to invoke the --window=hidden flag but it still opens the window at login. Am I missing a step to fix this?

[pfps]

solaar --window=hide works correctly for me as an autostart application under XFCE.

The default for Solaar is to show the window so you need to have the above flag in your autostart command.

> solaar --help
usage: solaar [-h] [-d] [-D PATH] [--restart-on-wake-up] [-w {show,hide,only}] [-b {regular,symbolic}] [-V] [--help-actions]
              ...

positional arguments:
  {show,probe,config,pair,unpair}
                        optional actions to perform

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           print logging messages, for debugging purposes (may be repeated for extra verbosity)
  -D PATH, --hidraw PATH
                        unifying receiver to use; the first detected receiver if unspecified. Example: /dev/hidraw2
  --restart-on-wake-up  restart Solaar on sleep wake-up (experimental)
  -w {show,hide,only}, --window {show,hide,only}
                        start with window showing / hidden / only (no tray icon)
  -b {regular,symbolic}, --battery-icons {regular,symbolic}
                        prefer regular / symbolic icons
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --help-actions        print help for the optional actions

[electriceccentric]

Can I ask which file I should be adding this flag to? Because maybe I'm putting this in the wrong place.

[pfps]

That depends on your window manager or distribution. It could be /etc/xdg/autostart/solaar.desktop which should have

Exec=solaar --window=hide

Look for files named solaar.desktop If there is one without the --window=hide flag in an autostart directory then something should be changed.

[electriceccentric]

Thank you that worked perfectly! I was mistakenly editing the other .desktop.