The author of this question states in a comment that he solved the problem of adding an app to startup by linking its desktop file to ~/.config/autostart
.
Trying to test that I see on my system a big difference between what's there and what really is auto-starting on my system, as some of the apps there are not in the startup list at all, some are disabled, and one app is auto-starting (pcmanfm daemon) without being there.
What does this mean? Is ~/.config/autostart
obsolete?
When I delete all desktop files there, the startup list is also emptied.
How does it work?