This has been fixed in beagle cvs, now beagle will drop an autostart desktop file according to xdg autostart specifications. (Gnome follows them ;) ) Will be available in 0.2.14
** Changed in: beagle (Ubuntu) Assignee: Brandon Hale => Kevin Kubasik Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- The 'start automaticaly' checkbox does nothing in 'Search Preferences' https://launchpad.net/bugs/37143 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs