autostart not working

[ryofurue]

Hi there,

I'm struggling to get the autostart working for some applications. Let me take skype as an example. I wish skype to start at login. So,

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  $ cd .config/autostart/
  $ ln -s /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

But this doesn't work. Strangely there are applications that work in a similar way, such as gnubiff and xmodmap. (But, for these, their .desktop files aren't symbolic links. I forgot where I got gnubiff.desktop. I created xmodmap.desktop myself.)

If you visit .config/autostart with PCMan and double click on the files, each one of them works. That means the files are correct. I also tried .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart/ without success.

Could someone help? I'm using LXDE 0.3.2.1+svn20080509-5 on the testing distribution of Debian.

Cheers,
Ryo

[archibald haddock]

For global purposes there is a file /etc/xdg/lx.../autostart, where you can add things.