The proposed workarounds are not even short-time solutions, as there are multiple side effects of the missing startup order. >From my bug report (marked as duplicate):
Especialy the notification area is much to late available, causing different effects: - kadu (KDE gadu-gadu IM client) doesn't start in the tray, but shows its icon on the desktop - gaim starts in window mode and not minimized as configured - different notifies (network manager, power manager, updates) are shown at various inconsistent places / corners Is there a way to push the upstream developers / upstream priority? -- no way to set order of startup programs https://launchpad.net/bugs/32194 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs