After login in GNOME a lot of applications can be automatically started to make life easier. System-wide autostart applications can be found in /etc/xdg/autostart and in /usr/share/gnome/autostart. Users have choices to edit a autostart application by disabling it, editing its name, command or description; additionally, users may add their own autostart applications.
Gnome provides the tool gnome-session-properties, which allows us to add, modify and remove autostart applications. Once we are done with gnome-session-properties, new entries (files) are generated and saved in directory ~/.config/autostart/.
Here is an example file skype.desktop created and saved after adding skype as a new autostart application:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/skype
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=Skype
A new file named gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop is created (and saved in directory ~/.config/autostart) after removing the default autostart application SSH key agent. The contents in it are the same as that in file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop, except in one line:
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
which specifies that the autostart is disabled.
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