EasyEffects service won't launch at startup

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Hi there.

Freshly installed F41. I’m having a hard time to launch EasyEffects service on system boot. I have “Launch Service at System Startup” enabled, but when I reboot it does not load. Any solutions available? Thanks in advance.

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anyone pls?

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Can you check if EasyEffects are in the Autostart App list, e.g., in the GNOME Tweaks app ?

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Thanks for the reply.

No, it was not in the list. I have turned the setting in EasyEffect on and off a couple of times, but it does not appear in the list of Startup Applications.
I just added it manually to the list and rebooted the system. It’s starting now, but not as a service. The application itself is opening. How do I start it “silent”?

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Strange, for me it starts without opening the window. Try uninstalling&installing.

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Updated everything / uninstalled / removed manually from tweaks (reference was still there) / rebooted / reinstalled => same issue. Not adding to startup => added manually / reboot => same thing. But this time at least I noticed that my mic is not working at all anymore. Probably since F41 install … … …

It seems like I’m not allowed to use any Linux distro. Whatever I try, things don’t work, “magically” work suddenly, breaks after update, etc, etc. Been trying to get into Linux for a year now. Nothing changed since day 1… I’m frustrated, sorry.

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That package does not include any systemd service units.
There’s only a D-Bus service, but do you really mean it?
Perhaps you just want to utilize XDG autostart:

sudo dnf install easyeffects
desktop-file-install \
    --dir=${HOME}/.config/autostart \
    --remove-key=DBusActivatable \
    /usr/share/applications/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects.desktop
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Another thing to check - can you check if EasyEffects are among running processes ? With the ps in terminal, System Monitor or Resources GUI apps ?

I found that in my case EasyEffects are not visible in the background app list, but I can find it in the Resource app’s Processes section.

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@vgaetera Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it gives me the same result as manually adding the application. It starts up, it’s also in “Tweaks” in the startup applications, but when reboot the app opens on boot. (silent is preferred)

@arturasb I could not find it in the running processes. After using the command from Vladislav I see it in the processes list (ps -ef)

Thank you both for you input. There are unfortunately bigger issues I have now since mic is broken and I need it now, I’ll have to go back to windows. Not sure when I’ll come back. Too many things break or don’t like to work out-of-the-box. I don’t mind to read and learn things, but I ran out of patience for now. Better to stop for a while and try (something else) again later.

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Don’t give up yet :wink:
Try one of Fedora’s derivatives from https://universal-blue.org/. These variants are more “user friendly”.