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The second is the Skype UWP app that is already installed by default in Windows 10. It’s been updated several times in the past but it’s still a Win32 app that you have to manually download and install on your system. One is the Win32 desktop version which we’ve been using since Skype launched. config/gnome-sessions/saved-sessions contains error messages about the skype.png icon, and I suspect that a bad skype icon is why skype does not show up in the Startup Programs list.There are two different Skype apps that you can use on Windows 10. In addition, I found that the saved session files under. You must click on that icon and select close to shutdown skype. At the top of the screen you will still see a small skype icon.

It turns out that when you close the skype login window you haven't actually shutdown skype. That ultimately led to a situation where I had 3 instances of skype automatically starting up, but skype was never listed in Preferences->Startup Applications->Startup Programs.Įventually I found a very simple solution and a possible explanation for why skype does not show up in the Startup Programs list. I went round and round with Preferences->Starup Applications->Options, shutting down skype and clicking Remember Currently Running Applications, following the suggestions in this thread and others, etc.

Just wanted to add some info based on my similar experience with this problem. So make sure you don't have any such files and no unwanted entries in them. GNOME and KDE have their own more elegant mechanisms of auto-starting applications) but they are still being executed by X11 when and if encountered. They're considered a bit obsolete these days (because e.g. These are (ancient?) X11 startup scripts that would auto-start things as soon as you have a GUI session. So you should check that you don't have any such file. Also, sometimes people add stuff manually to files such as ~/.xinit or ~/.xinitrc and then forget about that. Make sure Skype isn't listed to be started when you login to GNOME.

System > Preferences > Startup Applications So next time you reinstall the program again, the old (bad?) settings become active again and you're back to square #1. Even if you remove a program its settings inside your /home directory will survive. Of course.ĭe-installing and re-installing a misbehaving program is Windows-thinking. I then reinstalled skype, and it starts again automatically.