Bug 238507 - /etc/xdg/autostart/ ignored by KDE
Summary: /etc/xdg/autostart/ ignored by KDE
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 243611
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-30 22:07 UTC by Stuart Jansen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-06-26 16:18:27 UTC
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test .desktop file (77 bytes, text/plain)
2007-04-30 22:07 UTC, Stuart Jansen
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Description Stuart Jansen 2007-04-30 22:07:14 UTC
Description of problem:
All .desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart/ should be launched on log in. They are
when a Gnome session is chosen from GDM, but not when a KDE session is chosen.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create .desktop file
2. Log into Gnome. Note app is started.
3. Log into KDE. Note app is not started.
  
Additional info:
Test file attached.

Comment 1 Stuart Jansen 2007-04-30 22:07:14 UTC
Created attachment 153831 [details]
test .desktop file

Comment 2 Stuart Jansen 2007-04-30 22:08:30 UTC
This bug appears to apply to RHEL5 also.

Comment 3 Stuart Jansen 2007-05-04 18:58:18 UTC
Correct behavior is defined in
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-0.5.html

KDE works as expected on other distros, for example Novell SLES10, with a
slightly older version of KDE. Was Portland autostart support deliberately
disabbled? If so, why?

Comment 4 Niko Mirthes 2007-06-04 17:21:47 UTC
After a bit of checking, KDE 3 (and probably KDE 4) does not honour the 
autostart spec at all. KDE 3 will use $KDEDIRS/autostart, 
$KDEHOME/share/autostart, and $KDEHOME/Autostart exclusively. So anything 
placed in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart) should be 
added to one of the KDE autostart directories, or KDE's behavior can be 
changed with a patch.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2007-06-26 16:18:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243611 ***


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