"Start Guake at login" option does not work

[Robert Matusewicz]

Hi,

What is happening: When I enable "Start Guake at login" option, then logout and login again, the Guake is not started. The same happens when I logout, then shutdown, poweron and login - Guake is not started. The "Star Guake at login" option is still enabled.

What should happen: Guake is started after login

Workaround: adding entry to "Startup Applications" is a good workaround, Guake will start.

Output of lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10

Output of apt-cache policy guake:
guake:
  Installed: 3.6.3-1
  Candidate: 3.6.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.3-1 500
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Robert Matusewicz (matekm)]

I found a reference to the problem in upstream project: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1486 - I will raise the issue there. Sorry guys, should have checked first before raising issue here!

[Robert Matusewicz (matekm)]

I'm not sure how relevant that is, but when I open python3 shell and do this:

>>> import guake
>>> from guake.paths import AUTOSTART_FOLDER
>>> print(AUTOSTART_FOLDER)

>>> from guake.paths import LOGIN_DESTOP_PATH
>>> print(LOGIN_DESTOP_PATH)

you can see that both paths are empty

On the other hand, when I do

>>> from guake.paths import LOCALE_DIR
>>> print(LOCALE_DIR)
/home/robert-matusewicz/development/guake/guake/po

that's correctly pointing to the directory. Maybe here is a problem

[Robert Matusewicz (matekm)]

Ok, so empty AUTOSTART_FOLDER/LOGIN_DESTOP_PATH will be the problem. When I install Guake via apt, those python variables are empty.

When I download sources from git and make install them, those python variable are set correctly and "Start Gnome at login" works as expected!

I suppose it is something that needs to be forwarded to upstream?