[SOLVED] How to prevent GNU Cash from starting automatically with KDE?

Hasek39 · 01-20-2020, 09:12 AM

Something gone wrong several days ago with GNU Cash application, so every time I reboot a computer or DE now it starts automatically with KDE and says "GNU Cash could not obtain the lock for file ...". I looked for autostart, but can't see GNU Cash neither in /usr/share/autostart/ nor in GUI via System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Autostart. How can I prevent it from starting automatically? Let me know if you need more details.

My desktop is KDE 4.14.32 on Slackware 14.2.

Geist · 01-20-2020, 12:58 PM

While I use Slackware, and have used KDE before, I have not used this particular aspect of it.
As per the documentation:
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-w...art/index.html

The program scans $HOME/.config/autostart/, $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/env and $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown folders to check what programs and scripts are already there and displays them. It allows you to manage them easily.

So, maybe there's something in these directories?

Hasek39 · 01-21-2020, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geist

The program scans $HOME/.config/autostart/, $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/env and $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown folders to check what programs and scripts are already there and displays them. It allows you to manage them easily.

So, maybe there's something in these directories?

No -- all these directories are either empty or do not exist.

Code:

bash-4.3$ ls ~/.config/autostart
bash-4.3$ ls ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env
ls: cannot access '/home/hasek/.config/plasma-workspace/env': No such file or directory
bash-4.3$ ls ~/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown
ls: cannot access '/home/hasek/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown': No such file or directory

Geist · 01-21-2020, 04:59 PM

Hmmmm, well maybe reposting this in the Slackware forum would be better, cause the only other solution I can think of is a brute force grepping of the system for gnucash.

It could be narrowed down by only looking for the 'desktop' file of it.