Bug#755243: gnome-screensaver: desktop entires under /usr/share/gnome/autostart not executing?

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 3.6.1-1
Severity: normal

gnome-screensaver does not start on boot.  It has an entry under /usr/share/gnome/autostart and
nowhwere else.  https://developer.gnome.org/autostart-spec/ does not mention this dir which
leads me to believe it may be old and deprecated (and hence no longer used).

The standard gnome 3 toosl for editing startup applications do not show any entries for items in
/usr/share/gnome/autostart but do for the ones in ~/.config/autostart and /etc/xdg/autostart
(the ones mentioned in https://developer.gnome.org/autostart-spec/).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.8.6-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin          3.8.4-4
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.8.2-2
ii  libc6                      2.19-7
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.102-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgnomekbd8               3.6.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libpam0g                   1.1.8-3
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxext6                   2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxklavier16              5.2.1-1
ii  libxxf86vm1                1:1.1.3-1

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager   3.8.2-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.8.2-2+b1

gnome-screensaver suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information