shantzu/ClipIt — Issue #3: Autostart ClipIt in Unity / Don't add global autostart 
Author: jnv
Created: 2011-11-05 10:47:27+00:00
State: open

Currently ClipIt starts automatically only in Gnome, XFCE and LXDE sessions. This is due to a [clipit-startup.desktop](https://github.com/shantzu/ClipIt/blob/master/data/clipit-startup.desktop.in) file defined as:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;LXDE;

To autostart in Unity, one has to edit this file in `/etc/xdg/autostart`, or add ClipIt to user-defined autostart applications (in `~/.config/autostart`) - this however leads to ClipIt being launched twice in Gnome session, unless `OnlyShowIn=Unity;` is defined in custom launcher...

So the easy fix is to add Unity to the global launcher. However it's a question, whether to automatically add global launcher, which can't be easily disabled by user (think of multi-user systems) - the best way would be a user option in ClipIt's Settings to enable/disable autostart.