Open file at startup from init file

Question

I like that at start emacs visits a file with my todo list. For long time, this has been accomplished by adding (find-file "~/my-file.org") at the end of my configuration file (.emacs). However, I found that after installing a new linux distribution (Ubuntu 22.04) emacs is started by default as a daemon. This is ok with me, but I noticed that now the find-file command is ignored.

How can I tell the emacs server to open a file at startup from within the configuration file? If the latter is not good practice, how can I obtain the same result?

Answer 1

You can use server-after-make-frame-hook:

(add-hook 'server-after-make-frame-hook (lambda () (find-file "~/my-file.org")))