Can't add to startup applications

Thank you for your bug report. That's working for me though. Have you tried with a new user account? Also, what is the exact data you're inputting to the text entry boxes?

Thanks

I just tried with a new user account and got the same result.

I am inputting "Conkyb" (cus now I have the "Conky" that I manually put in the folder) in the name and "/home/jon/.conky/startupconky.sh" in the command.

not confirming the issue using a guest session on karmic, do you get that with any command? are those listed after adding them to the dialog?

Confirming on Karmic, 2.28.0-0ubuntu2, with any command.
Command is listed right after adding but is missing when you run gnome-session-properties again.

Upd: It works for me if I input full paths:

Ex.: NOT works:
Gajim
gajim

DOES work:
Gajim
/usr/bin/gajim

Not confirming, I tried on current karmic in a guest session adding an "Gedit" "gedit" entry and hitting "enter" to validate, the gedit entry is added to the list and a desktop is added to .config/autostart/gedit.desktop as expected

No, it isn't. It seems that the behavious somehow depends on environment.

2009/9/30 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
> Not confirming, I tried on current karmic in a guest session adding an
> "Gedit" "gedit" entry and hitting "enter" to validate, the gedit entry
> is added to the list and a desktop is added to
> .config/autostart/gedit.desktop as expected
>
> --
> Can't add to startup applications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427464
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-session
>
> When I try add a script (it's basically a sleep & conky script) to the gnome-session-properties dialog, it seems to add successfully, but it is not retained when I reopen the dialog, and the script is not initiated on start-up. I also tried simply adding a conky command and this did not work either.
>
> I get no terminal messages from gnome-session-properties when trying to do this.
>
> I checked the permissions of my .config/autostart dir and they are fine. If I add .desktop files to this directory manually, they start up automatically.
>
> apt-cache policy gnome-session
> gnome-session:
>  Installed: 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
>  Candidate: 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
>

I stumbled on another bug where the reporter noticed that changes are not saved if you close the dialog too quickly, and that seems to be the same issue here. Anyway, I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 444993