Comment 3 for bug 1075093

"If I launch variety from the command line, it works fine" - and what happens if after login you exit Variety and relaunch in the ordinary way - from the dash / menu / whatever you use?

Debugging is done using the -v commandline switch, but there is no logging related to proxies, etc. in the current version, so you won't see anything interesting in the log (apart from the exception dumps when the http connection attempts fail).

I'll think of some way to reproduce it on my machine and see myself how it behaves, but I'm not sure if this would be an easy fix. As a workaround you may try several things - launch Variety on startup after some delay (there are tutorials on the net how to add a delay). Or in variety's startup desktop file (in ~/.config/autostart) change the command to look like "HTTP_PROXY=http://host:port/ /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/bin/variety" - this explicitly sets the env variable for the proxy.