Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102533
unable to add startup programs in KDE
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:56:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: from the Start Here icon on the KDE desktop, the "Sessions" applet does not load so that one may add a program to startup when logging into the KDE desktop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdeutils-3.1.3-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click on Start Here on the KDE desktop 2.Go to Preferences, then More Preferences 3.Click on "Sessions" vfolder:/start-here.menu/Start Here/Preferences/MorePreferences/ Actual Results: mouse pointer shows flashing hourglass icon, then disappears. Expected Results: the sessions dialog should open for input Additional info:
it's a bug in gnome-session
How is gnome-session involved? Isn't this KDE running?
This is in the KDE desktop. So if it works when the Gnome desktop, why doesn't it work when I'm in KDE? In effect, I cannot add any startup programs to my KDE sessions.
Havoc: the user has tried to start gnome-session-properties in KDE, and it has failed! i don't know why. Elton Woo: It's wrong using gnome-session-properties to add startup programs in KDE. There's at the moment no such program for KDE. But there is an easier way to add startup programs in KDE by copying desktop files into $HOME/.kde/Autostart/ You have also to configure session manager before. (kcontrol->KDE Components->Session Manager)
In that case the "Start Here" folder on the KDE desktop should NOT have a "sessions" Icon, OR there should be a *separate* "KDE-sessions" icon. Since the Start Here folder exists on both desktops and the contents are _identical_ in either desktop, this is misleading and confusing, since the user _reasonably expects_ the icons to provide identical fuctionality under either desktop. There is NO indication that the preferences:///MorePreferences --> Sessions icon applies ONLY to the Gnome destop.
There is a Start Here folder on the KDE desktop, but it is totally unusable, since it reports "malformed URL" (Fedora Core Test 3. and Fedora Core 1), versions:kdebase-3.1.4-6,kdeartwork-3.1.4-1
Problem is that the the url in starthere.desktop is wrong. It should be changed to: URL=start-here:/ So it will work in both Desktop Enviroment. or if you remove your $HOME/Desktop directory and restart KDE/GNOME it should do it for you. i have fixed gnome-session so that it only shows in Gnome. gnome-session-2.4.0-2 will include this fix.