Thunderbird and Empathy autostart?

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I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I feel like once configured Thunderbird and Empathy should launch in the background when a user logs in. At the very least there should be an option somewhere.

I've enabled this for Empathy with

/usr/bin/empathy -h

in the Startup Applications menu.

Is there a similar command line option to launch Thunderbird in the background?

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This is something like what I am looking for, but I'd rather have Thunderbird start minimized.

http://superuser.com/questions/29879...few-minutes-la

Also Alltray doesn't seem to work with AppIndicators.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+bug/812068

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Well.. no obvious solution.. Since we're using google apps company wide. I've simply installed gm-notify and blacklisted thunderbird (and gwibber) on the messaging menu.

Wish I could figure out a simple way to push those changes to my users.. *sigh*