I just wanted to complement Ken VanDine on his great suggestion! Adding
some common applications to the "Startup Applications Preferences" menu,
is an excellent way to make things easy for new users. The option to
Auto-Start those applications can be disabled by default, but as long as
it is easily
H-Bomb is correct, this bug has occured in every version of Ubuntu since
the switch to Empathy. New users do not know how to configure a program
to auto-start. Even somewhat experienced users will not know the command
needed to force a program like Empathy to start (usr/bin/empathy -h).
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