How do I add startup programs in Gnome 3? (Solved), ...

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: How do I add startup programs in Gnome 3?
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 10:08 AM
> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 14:34 +0200,
> Alon Levy wrote:
> 
> > I'm using gnome-settings for starting gkrellm here.
> But looking at my ~/.config/autostart *directory*
> > I see:
> > $ ls ~/.config/autostart/
> > dropbox.desktop  gkrellm.desktop
> > 
> > And the contents of gkrellm.desktop are:
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Type=Application
> > Exec=/usr/bin/gkrellm
> > Hidden=false
> > X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
> > Name[en_US]=gkrellm
> > Name=gkrellm
> > Comment[en_US]=system preformance monitoring
> > Comment=system preformance monitoring
> 
> Right. Like I said. You put .desktop files in
> ~/.config/autostart .
> -- 

Thank you very much Adam & Alon, your help is greatly appreciated.  Now it works.  I created a directory autostart in ~/.config/ directory, then added the file gkrellm.desktop with the contents above and it is working finally :)

Now, I have one remaining issue.  How do we get gdm to autologin?  The previous tricks to put in [daemon] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf do not work anymore.  Any insights on that would be appreciated as well.

Regards,

Antonio