I just wanted to complement Ken VanDine on his great suggestion! Adding some common applications to the "Startup Applications Preferences" menu, is an excellent way to make things easy for new users. The option to Auto-Start those applications can be disabled by default, but as long as it is easily accessible for a newbie user to enable, this problem is solved.
I noticed that the panel application "Weather Indicator" automatically inserts itself into the "Startup Applications Preferences" menu during installation, and hopefully in the future more and more applications will do the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/941463 Title: No way to set empathy to automatically start on login Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: i have selected from the preference that auto-start on login but empathy does not start on start on login. ubuntu 12.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.3.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Feb 26 19:48:09 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111211) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-27 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/941463/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
