Bug#755242: gnome-settings-daemon: /usr/share/gnome/autostart not used?

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.8.5-2+b2
Severity: normal

I have noticed that desktop entries under /usr/share/gnome/autostart are not getting executed on
boot.  This is perhaps because https://developer.gnome.org/autostart-spec/ makes no mention of
this dir (perhaps it is old and deprecated?).


gnome-settings-daemon is one such program

Regards,

Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.8.2-2
ii  libc6                                        2.19-7
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2
ii  libcolord2                                   1.2.1-1
ii  libcups2                                     1.7.3-6
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7                         3.8.4-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               204-14
ii  libibus-1.0-5                                1.5.7-1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.6-3
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-16                       0.8.17-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      5.0-2
ii  libpulse0                                    5.0-2
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.2-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.23-2+b2
ii  libwacom2                                    0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxkbfile1                                  1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.8.2-3
ii  systemd                                      204-14

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  5.0-2

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.6.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.13-1
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7+2

-- no debconf information