Add .desktop shortcut to ~/.config/autostart

[Daniel O'Connor]

Some desktop environments dont let you easily add applications to your session.

Consider providing a .desktop file, as per:
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=111

[Daniel O'Connor (daniel-oconnor)]

$ vi ~/.config/autostart/haguichi.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Haguichi
GenericName=VPN GUI
Comment=Frontend GUI for hamachi
Exec=haguichi
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=haguichi
Categories=Network;
StartupNotify=false

... should do it.

[Stephen Brandt (ztefn)]

Haguichi's autostart .desktop file is installed in /usr/share/gnome/autostart since version 1.0.19. Before that it was installed in the more desktop environment agnostic /usr/etc/xdg/autostart folder, but in GNOME 3 they decided to ignore that location in the “Startup Applications” editor...

Placing the .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart could indeed eventually be the best solution. To achieve this, Haguichi should create this file on runtime, instead of installation time. Additional advantage is that session startup could (also) be controlled from within Haguichi.

[Stephen Brandt (ztefn)]

Starting version 1.3.0, the .desktop file is installed in /etc/xdg/autostart/ again. This means it's available to any desktop environment's session manager for the taking. Tested on Unity, Gnome (Tweak Tool), Mate, KDE, XFCE and LXDE.

Considering most desktop environments use different ways to enable or disable application startup*, I'm afraid that simply placing and/or removing the .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart would bring a plethora of conflicts [1]. So marking this bug "Won't Fix" for now. But be welcome to bring ideas or suggestions to convince me otherwise.

* For example, while many desktops place a .desktop file to *enable* autostart, LXDE places a .desktop file to *disable* autostart by adding "NotShowIn=LXDE"