The list accessible in Settings>Applications>Startup is empty by default:
Here and in other places I found the idea that running this command should solve it:
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop
But it does not.
Best Answer
The application to start is called
gnome-session-properties
(part ofgnome-session-bin
). There the list can be edited.Any changes there will then appear in the other list accessible from Settings>Applications>Startup; thus, the latter is limited only to reverting to defaults.
In order to access that in the Panel Launcher (Applications), I have created a .desktop file inspired by the other such files that can be found in
usr/share/applications
with this content:So that it now can be found when searched or under Applications>System Tools