[tde-devels] Re: Autostart issues

Hi All, I am experiencing some autostart issues:

For the first issue, digging deeper indicates perhaps the Exec= directive in autostart desktop files is not parsed explicitly. Rather than execute the entire line in the Exec= entry, the code seems to be based on a presumption of only expecting traditional path strings. This means desktop files with 'Exec=/bin/sh -c' snippets fail to launch. I have a few such files and this took me a long time to identify. For a long while I thought the files were being ignored. Instead they fail to launch. One clue was in the user .xsession-errors log that TDE was unable to parse the Exec= entries. One work-around is convert the 'Exec=/bin/sh -c' snippets to shell script files. Doable but these snippets function as expected in other desktop environments. I suspect the code with other DEs is executing the entire Exec= line verbatim rather than trying to parse an executable from a presumed path. So this seems to be a TDE issue. I'll file a bug report for this problem if I receive confirmation. ------------ I think the NotShowIn issue is caused by code that tries to remove duplicates in the collected list of autostart files. I addressed that issue in bug report 2297. Basically the user files are being removed as duplicates and never execute, creating the illusion of being ignored. Thoughts? Thanks for your time!