Comment 6 for bug 836893

I just installed the indicator-multiload applet on a clean installation of Ubuntu 11.04 however, it did not autostart.
The version I installed was:
$ dpkg -s indicator-multiload
Package: indicator-multiload
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 1664
Maintainer: Michael Hofmann <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.2-0+33~14~15~natty1
Depends: libappindicator1 (>= 0.2.91), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbusmenu-glib3 (>= 0.4.2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libgtop2-7 (>= 2.23.2), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Description: Graphical system load indicator for CPU, ram, etc.
 A system load indicator capable of displaying graphs for CPU, ram, and swap
 space use, plus network traffic.
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/indicator-multiload

What I did to work around this is:
1. Create the autostart directory in ~/.config
2. Copied the multiload-indicator.desktop file from /usr/share/applications to ~/.config/autostart
3. Logged out and logged back in
Now the indicator showed.