subfolders for autostart missing

[phm2f1alcw69]

Trying to manually add programs (e.g. fcitx-autostart) to startup dialog via KDE system settings fails because the ~/.local/share/applications/ folder is missing.

If this folder is missing it should be created by the system settings startup dialog or even as generally existing folder at the time of the user's first KDE startup.

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lsb_release -rd
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Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10

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apt-cache policy kded5
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kded5:
  インストールされているバージョン: 5.15.0-0ubuntu1
  候補: 5.15.0-0ubuntu1
  バージョンテーブル:
 *** 5.15.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Actually, if you want to have fcitx up and running when you start a session, autostart is not the way to go, since a bunch of variables need to be set properly also. Instead you should configure im-config by running this command in a terminal window:

im-config -n fcitx

[phm2f1alcw69 (phm2f1alcw69)]

Thanks for your reply. One comments on this: AFAIU the command you mentioned has to be run once to configure the input method but not every time you want to start up fcitx.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

That's correct. The command creates the file ~/.xinputrc in your home directory.

This bug report is still motivated for other applications, of course.