Eu vou com dex , até agora.
$ cat /etc/X11/Sessions/awesome
#!/bin/sh
# Awesome Xsession starter, based on Xsession shipped by x11-apps/xinit-1.0.5-r1
...
zenity --title "Autostart" --timeout=30 --question --text="Launch autostart items?" && dex -a
exec ck-launch-session /usr/bin/awesome
Vamos também ter alguns itens de autostart:
$ ls -1 ~/.config/autostart/
gol.desktop
KeePass 2.desktop
skype-skype.desktop
tomboy.desktop
wpa_gui-wpa_supplicant.desktop
xterm-logs.desktop
Exemplo de item de início automático:
$ cat ~/.config/autostart/gol.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Growl For Linux
Comment=Growl Desktop Notification System For Linux
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;
Exec=/usr/bin/gol
Icon=/usr/share/growl-for-linux/data/icon.png
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18