On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Dan Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Denis Heidtmann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a few scripts which I run at logon.  I set this up some time ago,
> but
> > as those of my vintage may understand, I have forgotten how I set them
> up.
> >  Searching, I find that with Ubuntu 10.04 there is a GUI:  Systems,
> > Preferences, Startup Applications.  All the many things which get
> launched
> > are there--21 of them if I counted correctly.
> >
> > My question, for the sake of curiosity only, is where is this list
> stored?
>
> That app is gnome-session-properties. It will start stuff described
> with a desktop entry in:
> /etc/xdg/autostart
> ~/.config/autostart
>
> The spec for autostart is here:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
>
> The spec for desktop entries is here:
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
>
> --
> Dan Young


Thanks for the spot-on response.  All information is captured in it.
 Wonderful.

-Denis
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