I just upgraded my 64 bit Lubuntu to 13.10 on my netbook today. After the upgrade, I simply can't autostart the xfce4 power manager. I tried to add from the desktop session settings, I tried to copy the power manager.desktop file to ~/.config/autostart
folder.
Everything looks fine. Then I logout, log back in and the darn power manager just won't start automatically. It only starts when I double click the icon, or if I start it from the terminal.
Best Answer
Check
~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf
.Look for laptop_mode and see that it's set to 'yes':
This worked for me at least. Mine was set to 'no' so I would have to start xfce4-power-manager manually. By changing the value to 'yes' it now starts at login automatically without any further configuration.