[SOLVED] LM12 LXDE: Problem with Thunderbird autostart

[etisdale]

I've been successful autostarting a number of different programs under LM12 LXDE with one important exception: Thunderbird.

This is the method that I use:

1) Copy the .desktop file of the program to autostart from /usr/share/applications into /home/[user]/.config/autostart

2) Menu > Preferences > Desktop Session Settings to enable/disable the program under Automatically Started Applications

3) Restart

Unfortunately, Thunderbird does not work for me using the above method. Anybody know why this might be?

I suppose I could try another method to autostart Thunderbird, but would appreciate any ideas.

Thanks!

[Edited to mark as solved.]

[seppalta]

Try adding it to /etc/xdg/lxsession/Mint/autostart. See http://douwil7.100webspace.net/linux/Tuning.html#16.

[etisdale]

Wouldn't adding it to /etc/xdg/lxsession/Mint/autostart be a system-wide setting? I would prefer to have a user-based solution.

What in my standard thunderbird.desktop file (from /usr/share/applications) might be causing the problem? Every other .desktop file I've used has worked. Thanks!

[etisdale]

Solution:

I simply removed "%u" from my thunderbird.desktop file (which was copied into /home/[user]/.config/autostart from /usr/share/applications).

Specifically, I changed the line

Exec=thunderbird %u

to the line

Exec=thunderbird

by removing the trailing "%u".

Apparently, "%u" is a field code for a single URL (which URL, I don't know!):

http://standards.freedesktop.org/deskto ... 01s06.html