Unable to add programs to Startup Applications

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Hi @microsuperman,

Your personal Startup applications are stored in ~/.config/autostart/ so looking there may reveal the problem.

The ~/.config/ directory is hidden. If you’re familiar, you can use Caja. Otherwise this command in a terminal would be useful:

ls -al ~/.config/autostart/

Here is what I see in a 17.04 VM and I did successfully add startup.sh myself:

bill@UM1704-vm:~$ ls -al ~/.config/autostart/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  2 bill bill 4096 Apr 18 22:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 bill bill 4096 Apr 18 22:08 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 bill bill  225 Apr 15 09:52 blueman.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 bill bill  405 Apr 15 09:52 deja-dup-monitor.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 bill bill  312 Apr 15 09:52 mate-optimus.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 bill bill  173 Apr 18 22:08 startup.sh.desktop
bill@UM1704-vm:~$

What do you see?

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