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.
Created attachment 153831 [details] test .desktop file
This bug appears to apply to RHEL5 also.
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?
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243611 ***