Telegram starting up on its own, unwanted.
I've installed Telgram Desktop 1.3.14 on my MX Linux (debian/stretch)
and the program will start itself at odd times. It is not in XFCE autostart after login. The computer will be running for hours and Telegram will simply startup. I've have not found why it is doing this, there is no browser plugin triggering it, nor is Telegram authorized to use Notifications (XFCE) Anyone else getting this behaviour from Telegram? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(service) My rkhunter is not working properly so I can't check for rootkits with it. |
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/etc/xdg/autostart Telegram was phoning home to it's mother country on my android phone so I go rid of it... |
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yes I have checked
etc/xdg/autostart Telegram will start on its own after the computer is running, minutes hours, or days without user input |
Have you checked your processes to see if Telegram is running a background process?
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no keyboard shortcuts or bindings as well
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OP - I was going to suggest a systemd check but I don't think MX linux uses systemd. I could be wrong though. Personally I don't like telegram once I found out it is constantly phoning home to the country in which it was originally written. To me that's a little scary. It probably isn't spyware per se, but the phone home traffic was not relevant to the app so this was alarming to me.
Something has to be starting it - Linux apps can't just start on their own. Apps start either as a daemon system wide (systemd these days), or via a .desktop startup file in /etc/xdg/autostart, or ~/.config/autostart. |
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