On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 09:07:15AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
The desktop I just does not have that option checked in System Preferences. So if that is the case it is not by intent. In any case. I have since shutdown and restarted the gnome session multiple times without Skype running and it auto-starts every time regardless.
I suggest grepping around in your dotfiles, look in ~/.config/autostart/ and your window manager's configuration.