Comment 7 for bug 427464

No, it isn't. It seems that the behavious somehow depends on environment.

2009/9/30 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
> Not confirming, I tried on current karmic in a guest session adding an
> "Gedit" "gedit" entry and hitting "enter" to validate, the gedit entry
> is added to the list and a desktop is added to
> .config/autostart/gedit.desktop as expected
>
> --
> Can't add to startup applications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427464
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> Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-session
>
> When I try add a script (it's basically a sleep & conky script) to the gnome-session-properties dialog, it seems to add successfully, but it is not retained when I reopen the dialog, and the script is not initiated on start-up. I also tried simply adding a conky command and this did not work either.
>
> I get no terminal messages from gnome-session-properties when trying to do this.
>
> I checked the permissions of my .config/autostart dir and they are fine. If I add .desktop files to this directory manually, they start up automatically.
>
> apt-cache policy gnome-session
> gnome-session:
>  Installed: 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
>  Candidate: 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
>