I'm on Kubuntu 15.04, which was upgraded from 14.10. My autostart menu shows 3 programs and 1 script (ksuperkey enabled, pidgin disabled, steam enabled and my nvidia_fix script). Those were migrated from 14.10, but I'm pretty sure that I also had one more script there - that fixes some chrome bug for me. Anyway, when I add a new script, it shows on the list, but after I hit Ok (apply is grayed out) and run the autostart manager again, the script is not on the list. I can also verify that not only is it not visible, but it doesn't work. If I try to add the same script again, I get a message box, the the file will replace itself, and that I should provide a new name. If I cancel this message or provide a different name, the original script is again visible on the list - but it will vanish once I close the autostart manager and run it again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a script to autostart 2. Click OK after it is added and visible on the list 3. Run the autostart manager again Actual Results: The added script is no longer on the list. Expected Results: The added script should still be on the list. I'm not sure if the one script that survived the update to 15.04 is even working. It was a script that fixed graphical tearing for me on 14.10, but now the tearing is back. I can see that the scripts I try to add ARE in ~/.config/autostart/ , but the one script that did not migrate from 14.10 is shown as a 0 byte file, and the new scripts I add are there looking OK.
I also noticed (Kubuntu 15.04 migrated from 14.04) that: * The entries stored in "~/.kde/Autostart" are not executed anymore. * In "~/.config/autostart" only the files ".desktop" are now executed. * The configuration GUI allows adding scripts, but does not display them when the GUI is reopened. For now, as a work around, I added a ".desktop" entry for each of my scripts. I think that either the GUI should be consistent with what the autostart facility support: it should either only allow the creation of ".desktop" entries, or the execution of scripts should be fixed. The current state is quite confusing.
I'm having the same problem here on Kubuntu 15.04. Using the official Ubuntu packages (no Kubuntu PPA)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346862 ***