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Sessions not saving added startup programs

Asked by Vadim Peretokin on 2007-08-29

Hello,

I'm having a problem with Sessions not saving the changes I've made.

I found a similar problem here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/11154, and followed the instructions, but one part didn't work. Specifically, the part where they do "ls -ld .config/autostart/" tells me that I don't have such a directory... here's the output from the terminal as I followed the instructions from that question:

vadi@vadi-laptop:~$ gnome-session-properties

** (gnome-session-properties:10187): WARNING **: Could not save /home/vadi/.config/autostart/beagled-autostart.desktop file

vadi@vadi-laptop:~$ ls -ld .config
drwx------ 8 vadi vadi 4096 2007-08-28 11:28 .config
vadi@vadi-laptop:~$ ls -ld .config/autostart/
ls: .config/autostart/: Not a directory
vadi@vadi-laptop:~$ sudo chown vadi:vadi .config/autostart
Password:
vadi@vadi-laptop:~$ gnome-session-properties

** (gnome-session-properties:10249): WARNING **: Could not save /home/vadi/.config/autostart/beagled-autostart.desktop file

vadi@vadi-laptop:~$

I don't know, should I create an autostart directory in .config?

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : #1

try running:
rm ~/.config/autostart
mkdir ~/.config/autostart

then doing those steps again

Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : #2

Thanks a ton! That helped.

I don't know what I did to cause it, weird.

MrFr0g (camden-michael) said : #3

The same thing happened to me. I took one step further and edited the autostart file. The file contained info about the screenlets program that I had installed on the computer prior to this issue.

Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : #4

I had screenlets too, actually... and I do remember trying to add them on startup.

Hm, I'll tell RYX about this.

Rico Pfaus (ryxperience) said : #5

The .autostart folder may be missing on some systems, that's nothing problematic :) ... The screenlets don't remove that folder, it's kust used by the screenlets manager to add autostarters for screenlets that are set to "Automatically launch on login"..

best regards
RYX

nanopavan (nanopavan) said : #6

nanopavan suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #64: “Using wine in ubuntu”.