Sunshine autostart on startup

Bazzite
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Hi all,

I’m creating this because I didn’t find an answer to my problem.
Right now, I’m using sunshine + moonlight, and everything works perfectly except for the autostart feature.

I already tried to set it up from the ujust command line, but it never actually starts. I also tried to create a service to autostart on startup, but it also failed.
The weirdest part of all this is that my setup is currently using autologin, and from what I read online, most issues happen when the user has to log in, which isn’t my case.

Cheers

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Which exact ujust command did you use, and how did you setup the service? Please type it u(copy-paste) exactly as what you used to give usable info here.
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Hi,
The commands I used are the ones configured in the terminal, that’s why I didn’t post them here. Regardless, here are the commands:

ujust setup-sunshine
ujust setup-sunshine autostart
systemctl --user enable sunshine.service
systemctl --user status sunshine.service

I setup sunshine by running the first command and then choose option enable.

output of rpm-ostree status

Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:cdca43dbaa8147114289e960e82bd989c0572ad9c2630ef129c21f0bb9de79d2
                  Version: 42.20250621 (2025-06-21T21:02:06Z)
          LayeredPackages: containerd.io coolercontrol dnf-plugins-core docker-buildx-plugin docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-compose-plugin firejail
                           liquidctl sway virt-manager virt-viewer
                Initramfs: regenerate

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome-nvidia-open:41.20250215
                   Digest: sha256:1c2b1850d25c975efbd20ea52e186264d1aca77126043e6101dae36aa9726a64
                  Version: 41.20250215 (2025-02-15T18:13:36Z)
          LayeredPackages: containerd.io coolercontrol dnf-plugins-core docker-buildx-plugin docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-compose-plugin firejail
                           liquidctl sway virt-manager virt-viewer
                Initramfs: regenerate

I also tried to create a custom service, but it didn’t work, so I deleted it.

Cheers

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I had the same issue with sunshine not starting up on Bazzite GNOME desktop images. Made a github issue here https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/2044. My work around was to open “Ignition” and add Sunshine as a startup item there. Apparently changing the [Install] section in the service to WantedBy=default.target also works.

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Hi,

sorry for the late response, but I only managed to test this today.
Both approaches worked for me, although I wasn’t where the service file was stored (it has been a while since last time I edit it) so I run the following and edit the service:

systemctl --user edit sunshine.service

edit the file with the Wanted like you mentioned

systemctl --user restart sunshine.service

After reboot, it worked like a charm!
Thank you for the help
Cheers!