If I go to Settings, Applications, Startup, all I see is:
I remember I had added a few startup scripts (conky etc) and applications (xbindkeys) but I cannot see them there.
I think they were added with a different tool or something.
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Sign up to join this communityThe tool I used is gnome-session-properties
(of the gnome-session-bin
package, installed by default)
To launch it I had created a desktop file like so:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/startup.desktop
With
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=StartupApps
Comment=View apps starting with the system
GenericName=Startup Applications
Icon=preferences-system
Terminal=false
Categories=Gnome;Gtk;System;
Exec=gnome-session-properties
It shows:
It has edit option.
But it seems that for security reasons in Freya stable the default startup options which were accessible in Freya beta with this tool (see here, from this older answer (that I had forgotten about!)) are now hidden, and only the new custom options are visible.
In Loki ' Settings, Applications, Startup' shows the same items as gnome-session-properties
.
But the latter still has the advantage of providing an option to edit the entries (in the former one has to remove and add again an entry in order to modify it).
A cool feature in both tools is the possibility to use drag&drop of application launcher files (the kind of .desktop
files found in the applications
folders) onto the window in order to add new startup items. Only such files can be added in this way, not scripts; in order to add scripts, you have to use the 'Add' option.
gnome-session-properties
does not seem to be available in Freya.
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-properties
but it tells me that the package isn't available. You installed this in Freya without adding a PPA?
gnome-session-bin
is already installed in Freya by default apparently.
gnome-session-properties
is present in /usr/share
and working.
Edit
is a major feature lacking in elementary's 'Startup'.