[Bug 232246] New: Autostart ignores symbolic links

[Tristan Miller]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232246

           Summary: Autostart ignores symbolic links
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: psychonaut at nothingisreal.com


Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

KDE seems to ignore symbolic links to executables in the user's autostart
directory.

For example, my autostart directory is ~/.kde4/Autostart.  If I want to start
/usr/bin/foo on logging into KDE, one would think I should do this:

$ ln -s /usr/bin/foo ~/.kde4/Autostart/

But this doesn't work.  Instead, I have to do the following:

$ echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec /usr/bin/foo' >~/.kde4/Autostart/foo.sh
$ chmod 755 ~/.kde4/Autostart/foo.sh

This seems rather clumsy, awkward, and unintuitive.

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