Adding Startup Apps on Jaunty not working

[NoOp]

On 05/08/2009 11:40 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:30 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> For a little background, see the "Adding apps to startup could be made
>> easier" thread.
> 
> That's a novel, not background :-)
> 
>> Updating from hardy-intrepid-jaunty I now find that applications that
>> I've added to the startup menu (System|Preferences|Startup Applications)
>> is no longer working. For example: I previously had Nautilus to start on
>> boot - worked great in hardy. Now, it no longer starts; I've even
>> included the full path in the command (/usr/bin/nautilus) and it still
>> doesn't work. Anyone have any idea what needs to be done to get it to
>> start and/or a reference bug report (I've already viewed
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/249373).
> 
> If I put /usr/bin/nautilus in there, it does not work.
> If I put /usr/bin/nautilus $HOME in there, it coughs up a 'could not
> open $HOME' error on log in.
> If however I put in /usr/bin/nautilus /home/myusername   it works fine.


Well I'll be... I put in 'nautilus /home/<username> and it works!

I tried it both from logout/login and from reboot - both work. I wonder
if it was/is a permissions issue. I'll look into it later, but *thanks*
for figuring out a solution - you get the free beer today :-)