Proper autostart capabilities via libportal

Author: teamcons

data/com.github.elfenware.badger.gschema.xml

@@ -87,5 +87,10 @@
       <summary>The saved height of the window.</summary>
       <description>The saved height of the window.</description>
     </key>
+    <key name="first-run" type="b">
+      <default>true</default>
+      <summary>Whether this is the first time that Badger has opened</summary>
+      <description>Used to determine whether or not to perform initial install steps</description>
+    </key>
   </schema>
 </schemalist>

meson.build

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ executable(
         dependency ('glib-2.0'),
         dependency('granite-7'),
         dependency('gobject-2.0'),
-        dependency('gtk4')
+        dependency('gtk4'),
+        dependency('libportal')
     ],
     install : true
 )

src/Application.vala

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
     protected override void activate () {
         stdout.printf ("\n✔️ Activated");
 
+        var settings = new GLib.Settings ("com.github.elfenware.badger.state");
         var gtk_settings = Gtk.Settings.get_default ();
         var granite_settings = Granite.Settings.get_default ();
         stdout.printf ("\n⚙️ State settings loaded");
@@ -54,6 +55,24 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
             );
         });
 
+        // On first run, request autostart
+        if (settings.get_boolean ("first-run")) {
+            stdout.printf ("\n🎉️ First run");
+            
+            var portal = new Xdp.Portal();
+            GenericArray<weak string> cmd = new GenericArray<weak string> ();
+            cmd.add ("com.github.elfenware.badger --headless");
+
+            portal.request_background(
+                null, 
+                "Autostart Badger in headless mode to send reminders", 
+                cmd, 
+                Xdp.BackgroundFlags.AUTOSTART, 
+                null);
+
+            settings.set_boolean ("first-run", false);
+        }
+
         if (window == null) {
             var reminders = set_up_reminders ();
             var main = new MainGrid (reminders);