When the Autostart folder contains textfiles (or not executable shellscripts), KDE starts a bit slower, then plasma hangs and no KDE/Gnome programs (and no firefox/thunderbird) start anymore. I could only run programs, because i had a non-KDE terminal in autostart. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a shellscript in ~/.kde/Autorun 2. try to disable it with chmod -x 3. start KDE Actual Results: - KDE starts (maybe a bit more slowly) - Desktop loads, cursor gets a blinking kate icon - The Panel hangs, all plasmoids on the desktop are hanging, the systray-icons of non-KDE programs are working - Programs like firefox/thunderbird/KDE-programs/Gnome-programs hang without showing a window. - Programs with other xlibs work (i.e. urxvt works just fine) - KWin runs with all features as well Expected Results: - Files are ignored or maybe opened in a texteditor I suspect some race condition about stuff like dbus starting after the autostart programs but having to be started before kate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286658 ***