Niri Session Startup Script Issue

[WantenMN]

(niri unstable 2024-10-30 (commit d3e7224))

I wrote a script in ~/.config/niri/test.sh with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo $(date +"%H:%M:%S") > ~/Downloads/time.txt

I added this line at the end of the Niri config.kdl file:

spawn-at-startup "bash ~/.config/niri/test.sh"

exited Niri, and logged back into my TTY session. However, when I launch Niri using niri-session, the spawn-at-startup setting has no effect, and no time.txt file is created.

[YaLTeR]

niri does not split arguments and does not expand ~ in arguments, you need to pass them separately: spawn-at-startup "bash" "/home/USERNAME/.config/niri/test.sh"

[sodiboo]

since the file in question has a shebang, it should also be sufficient to omit the interpreter from the invocation. spawn-at-startup "~/.config/niri/test.sh". niri does expand ~ in the executable, which is exactly what the user wanted here :3

(if this doesn't work, make sure it's also actually executable: chmod +x ~/.config/niri/test.sh)