Startup Applications not working in 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 19 August 2017 at 21:33, Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Have you put the full paths to the commands?  If not then try that.
>
> Yes.  Compared paths, and that is ok.  But just found a typo in the
> My-Weather-Indicator command.  Corrected that and now it comes up.  But, no
> such luck with xscreensaver.  I have tried "/usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash"
> and "/usr/bin/xscreensaver -display :0 -no-splash".  Both work from the CL.
> Boot up with either gives me "The XScreen daemon doesn't seem to be running
> on display ":0". Launch it now?"  You click OK and all is well.

Can you copy/paste the desktop file here?

Colin

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> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 19 August 2017 at 18:50, Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have been struggling to get Xscreensaver and My-Weather-Indicator to
>> > run
>> > at startup.  I have been able to start both from the command line.
>> > Entered
>> > the same commands in Startup Applications, but neither will run at boot
>> > up.
>> > Looked at .config/autostart and both are there and the config entries
>> > appear
>> > correct.  Not sure where to look next.
>>
>> Have you put the full paths to the commands?  If not then try that.
>>
>> Colin
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