Korganizer does not autostart

[Syam Krishnan]

On Saturday 03 October 2015 07:27 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Syam Krishnan wrote:
>
>
>> But can I ask a basic layman question..
>>
>> How come the autostart file is in a root-only location like
>> /usr/share/autostart or /etc/xdg/autostart?
>> Shouldn't it be in a ordinary-user-writable location instead?
>> Otherwise, how come an ordinary user starting KOrganizer gets
>> permissions to install an auto-start file in these root-only locations?
>> And if one user chooses to autostart KOrganizer, won't it be enabled for
>> other users too?
> Your suggestion is one possible implementation, but ...
>
> the way it currently works is that the autostart .desktop file includes a
> special key to conditionally start or not.
>
> for example, korganizer's korgac.desktop includes:
>
> X-KDE-autostart-condition=korgacrc:General:Autostart:true
>
> which means it'll only start if ~/.kde/share/config/korgacrc [General]
> section includes a key
> Autostart=true

Oh. OK. So the application at the time of install creates a global 
autostart file in those root-only locations.
Then there is a per-user file which actually enables autostart for that 
user.

Interesting.. Never knew this. Thanks for the info.


Regards,

Syam