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gnome-session package

  1. Bug #896631
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 896631

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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote : Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

Look up for a .desktop file corresponding to the autolaunched command?

If I start empathy on startup, the program would look for empathy.desktop ( on my system /usr/share/applications/empathy.desktop ), which hopefully specifies an icon - and indded it does
[Desktop Entry]
blabla
Exec=empathy
Icon=empathy
blabla

I suppose that .desktop file of a command has usually name command.desktop (as in this case empathy.desktop). This code must already be in use somewhere, Unity uses desktop files for listing applications in the dash afaik and so does Nautilus (for suggestions of recommendedprograms to open a file).