After fresh install of plasma, unable to add new autostart entries. At the end of add procedure I get error: "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write to /home/USER/.local/share/applications/tion.desktop." It seems that PATH is malformed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Autostart -> Add program.. 2. Choose application (konversation), click OK, click OK 3. Error pops up. Actual Results: I get error: "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write to /home/USER/.local/share/applications/tion.desktop." Expected Results: Startup entries is created. 1. It looks that PATH for creating entry is malformed because it differs I choose different applications. 2. Folder ~/.local/share/applications is missing (not created initially at installation nor on demand) 3. After manually created "~/.local/share/applications" folder - error is gone and I am able to add startup entries.
This bug is still alive. When trying to add libreoffice writer, the properties dialog pops up, and clicking on OK gives the following error: "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write to /home/me/.config/autostart//libreoffice-writer.desktop" The folder /home/me/.config/autostart/ already exists, but the bug happens anyway. This seems to happen only when the .desktop file has an Exec line with an additional commandline flag, such as libreoffice --writer
This is fixed in the rewrite which will be released in Plasma 5.20!