Drapes will not autostart on lucid (10.04 LTS)

[D Tangman]

When I use the DD General Preferences tab to enable "Start Desktop Drapes on start", the .config/autostart/drapes.desktop file that is created lacks a "Type=Application" line, which results in two errors in my .xsession-errors:

  gnome-session[5486]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file .../drapes.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Type'
  gnome-session[5486]: WARNING: could not read .../.config/autostart/drapes.desktop

and the DD icon does not appear. Running drapes manually works OK, and adding the missing line to the desktop file causes the DD icon to appear as expected following login.

[Bob Coon (r-coonjr63)]

I can confirm this, and confirm that the above work-around (manually adding "Type=Application" to /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes) seems to have fixed the problem.

from my syslog, prior to applying work around:

Jun 3 11:04:38 USER-LM9-desktop gnome-session[1753]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Type'
Jun 3 11:04:38 USER-LM9-desktop gnome-session[1753]: WARNING: could not read /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes.desktop

OS: LinuxMint 9 (Isadora) - Main (based on Ubuntu 10.04 lucid)
Kernel: 2.6.32-21 generic
Gnome: 2.30.0
Other:Compiz Fusion w/Emerald

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

I made a fixed version: https://launchpad.net/cortina