I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.10 (Unity) and I cannot find any way to manage the startup applications. I have done the usual first to unhide hidden applications (sudo sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g" /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop) and then tried typing start, startup etc in dash but no program shows up. I've searched through all applications and can't find it anywhere.
Does anybody have an idea how I can fix this? Is there something that failed to install?
I'm using ubuntu Gnome and do not seem to have gnome-session-properties. Instead I found you can use the gnome-tweak-tool and there is a section for startup programs in there.
gnome-session-properties is not installed with the latest version gnome-session-bin package in Ubuntu 14.10. If you check /usr/bin/ folder, you will see only gnome-session, gnome-session-inhibit, and gnome-session-quit.
A work around is go to:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gnome-session-bin
and download(end of the page) the package as per system architecture. It's a ".deb" file. Instead of installing, unpack the file with the following command:
dpkg-deb -x gnome-session-bin_3.9.90-0ubuntu12_amd64.deb ~/Desktop/
The extract would be a folder named usr. Inside you will see bin , lib, share. Go to bin and there you will find gnome-session-properties. You can then move/copy the file to /usr/bin/ of your system or type in terminal (be careful):
sudo nautilus
and drag the file to /usr/bin/ folder.
Go to terminal and type sudo gnome-session-properties and the startup applications preference window will show up.
