MinimWatch startup error

[nickc]

"For me (on Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity), the wallpaper image is already showing when I get the login prompt and everything else happens within less than 20 seconds after I log in. What machine are you using and which versiion of Java (Oracle or OpenJDK) do you have installed?"

As I mentioned in my original post, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Classic Gnome desktop. The pc is very old now - I built it myself. MSI Neo 865PE mobo, Pentium 4 (Northcott) 3ghz cpu, 2gb RAM, mix of IDE and SATA hard drives. Re Java:

nick@nick-build-1:~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_79"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.5) (7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

Setting login to auto doesn't help, by the way, as I still get a prompt that I have to click on, just don't have to enter a password. I thought there was a setup whereby everything happened automatically from the moment of booting the machine, but I haven't (yet) found how to configure that.