Ubuntu 25.10 No Longer Includes Startup Applications Tool

Want your favourite app to start automatically when you log in to Ubuntu? You used to reach for the Startup Applications tool, but in Ubuntu 25.10, it’s no longer there. Ubuntu 25.10 ships with GNOME 49, and a new version of the gnome-session package. This is what previously included the GUI startup applications tool, making it easy to add custom commands, launch scripts, and daemons and so on on each time you login. But the ability for the desktop to autostart services and monitor their lifecycle has been removed in GNOME 49, in favour of using systemd. For end users […]

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