'alacarte' crashes, and no apparent way to set Start-up apps, but yes, there is, and hidden (Gnome-session-properties)

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 02:11 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 00:09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         So, Why-oh-why doesn't 'startup applications' appear in the
>         list of apps under "system tools" or in the "System settings"
>         folder view, specifically under "System" ?
>         Isn't a list of apps that run at startup a "system setting"?.
>         And why hide gnome-session-properties, for heaven' s sake? 
> 
> Found the reason why!.
> 
> The file gnome-session-properties.desktop in
> /usr/share/applications
> 
> contains:
> NoDisplay=True
> 
> If I change it to NoDisplay=False
> then under Applications, its new icon shows up, dubbed "Startup
> applications". (Also shows up if on the search box you type "Gnome",
> or "Startup".
> 
> Should I file a bug fix about this? 

No, you'd be wasting your time. It's hidden intentionally because it's
considered deprecated in GNOME 3. The GNOME devs don't like the whole
session handling stuff  and consider it fundamentally too fragile to be
advertised to users.

alacarte bug is filed as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734442 .
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