Program Launches itself at startup...
 

Kaffeine launches itself at startup, once the desktop is loaded...How do I turn off this auto launch feature?
I'm using Suse 9.1 personal.

KDE?

look in
~/.kde/Autostart

I'm still a newbie...how do I go about locating this file or path?

I'm guessing there is a command of some form that would help to locate say any folder named "autostart"

Can you provide a little more direction?
Thank you.

there is, indeed
It's called locate :)

locate -i autostart


Cheers,
Tink

I appreciate your help however the command "locate" is not recognized under SUSE 9.1 personal, I dont think I am doing anything wrong. Any other suggestions?

There's
find

Takes a bit longer

find / -iname "autostart"


Cheers,
Tink

you're not looking to locate it, it should be in ~/.kde/Autostart

now--
from the console|shell|command line (whatever you call that looks like the dos prompt) do this:

do you see the autostart folder?
-- the tilde (~) refers to your $HOME -- /home/yourname/

also, since the directory '.kde' has a dot in front of it, it will appear hidden on linux... if you want to see it, you have to do:
--the 'a' option is for 'all'

are you still with me? what do the commands respond with?

I understand.
Thanks for your quick responses.

/autostart is empty.
When I execute the command here is what I get:
@linux:~/.kde/Autostart> ls -l ~/.kde/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 johnz users 80 2004-08-13 11:07 Autostart
lrwxrwxrwx 1 johnz users 23 2004-08-13 11:07 cache-linux -> /var/tmp/kdecache-johnz
drwx------ 7 johnz users 168 2004-08-13 11:07 share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 johnz users 18 2004-08-13 11:07 socket-linux -> /tmp/ksocket-johnz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 johnz users 14 2004-08-13 11:07 tmp-linux -> /tmp/kde-johnz

I still cant figure out why Kaffiene continues to launch at the start up.
I've also looked under opt/kde/share/autostart however there is no obvious reference to kaffiene here...
any other ideas ?

(i do not run kaffeine or suse or kde, so i will help as i can, but please bear with me...)
well, i looked up your problem on suse, and you should not feel alone. i found a thread which had a couple good pointers:

however, given their problems, it might still run. please let me know if it does, and we'll talk about killing processes.

Thank you!
This problem has been solved.
I tried a "ps -e" and found an occurance of kaffiene running. I killed it. Restarted my system and no more kaffeine upon startup. I then went to kde session manager and selected empty session.

Thanks again.