Automatically Running g600 on startup

[Edwardius]

Anyone know how to have the compiled ./g600 file run on startup? This is with Ubuntu 20.04.

[mafik]

There are probably many ways to do this. One approach:

1. Change the owner of the g600 binary to root (or any user that can access input devices): chown root:root ./g600
2. Enable suid bit in the binary - so that any user can start it: chmod u+s ./g600
3. Use the mechanism provided by your desktop environment to start the binary when the desktop starts. There seems to be something called "Startup Applications Preferences" in Ubuntu (based on https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-autostart-applications-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux).

Another approach might be to write a systemd service file and start this as a "user service". Arch has some docs about this here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User . This mechanism should work identically on any distro, so don't worry that it's not Ubuntu-specific.