Can't add programs at start up

highllamas · 11-04-2006, 05:37 AM

Hi. I have installed Edgy Eft two days ago and I have a strange problem. I have been using Dapper Drake for a month and I didn't have any similar problems...
I go to System>Preferences>Sessions>Start Up Programs and add a command (for example gdesklets) to make this eye candy tool load on start up. Everything seems to be fine and I press Close. The problem is that when I go again on System>Preferences>Sessions>Start Up Programs the command has been disappeared. Of course when I reboot gdesklets don't load automatically.... This is happening with any command I use for start up (I have tried for example xmms)...still nothing...Any ideas?
Thanks.

rino.caldelli · 11-08-2006, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by highllamas

Hi. I have installed Edgy Eft two days ago and I have a strange problem. I have been using Dapper Drake for a month and I didn't have any similar problems...
I go to System>Preferences>Sessions>Start Up Programs and add a command (for example gdesklets) to make this eye candy tool load on start up. Everything seems to be fine and I press Close. The problem is that when I go again on System>Preferences>Sessions>Start Up Programs the command has been disappeared. Of course when I reboot gdesklets don't load automatically.... This is happening with any command I use for start up (I have tried for example xmms)...still nothing...Any ideas?
Thanks.

Can't reproduce that..I load Klipper and Korganizer at startup and they work!
try them and tell us...

skimitar · 11-24-2006, 01:29 AM

For some reason, the ownership of ~/.config/autostart had changed to root:root

Changing the ownership back to my logon

Code:

sudo chown yourusername:yourusername ~/.config/autostart

fixed the issue and allowed me to add startup programs again.