Can't Launch Minimized as Startup Application

[Lonnie Lee Best]

I use autokey-qt as an application that is automatically launched upon login.

In Startup Applications, I run the command: autokey-qt

In Ubuntu 12.04, it launched minimized (as desired), but in 12.10, it each time I login I have to exit out of AutoKey's main window because it pops up after login. I'd instead like it to be minimized to the indicator/applet by the clock (as before), yet I find no option provided for this desired behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: autokey-qt 0.90.1-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.27-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 8 16:33:27 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autokey
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-04 (4 days ago)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I wish there was a parameter I could pass (when launching autokey-qt), that would tell it to minimize after launching. Each time I login to the Unity desktop, I have to do this manually (as I have autokey-qt as a startup application).

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

In Startup Applications, I attempted to solve this problem by running two command at once:
autokey-qt ; wmctrl -k on

From the command line this both launches autokey-qt and minimizes all windows, but as a Startup-Application-command it fails to even launch autokey-qt.

This remains an issue.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Confirming since this bug affects multiple users.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Under a fresh configuration, autokey-qt does not show the main window on start in my testing on 12.10.

Can you reproduce this under a fresh config?

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I cannot confirm that 12.10 still does this, and I did not have fresh configuration at the time I reported this bug; it was upgraded from the configuration I had in 12.04.

In 13.04, it does NOT launch the gui when launched as a startup application (as desired).

In 13.10 (beta), it crashes upon launching as a startup application:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autokey/+bug/1236123

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

However, when I submit this bug I was using autokey-qt, and I forgot to mention that I'm currently running autokey-gtk.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for autokey (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]