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Old 10-04-2004, 04:14 PM   #1
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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.
 
Old 10-04-2004, 04:17 PM   #2
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KDE?

look in
~/.kde/Autostart
 
Old 10-04-2004, 04:54 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 10-04-2004, 05:00 PM   #4
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there is, indeed
It's called locate :)

locate -i autostart


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Old 10-04-2004, 05:05 PM   #5
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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?
 
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There's
find

Takes a bit longer

find / -iname "autostart"


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Old 10-04-2004, 05:19 PM   #7
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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:

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ls -l ~/.kde/
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:
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ls -la ~
--the 'a' option is for 'all'

are you still with me? what do the commands respond with?
 
Old 10-04-2004, 05:40 PM   #8
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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 ?

Last edited by ZingSter; 10-04-2004 at 05:45 PM.
 
Old 10-04-2004, 05:58 PM   #9
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(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:

Quote:
In SuSE, KDE will by default open the applications that were running the last time you logged out. Kaffeine minimizes to the system tray if you close its window instead of quitting it. Just quit it, log out, and it won't autolaunch when you log back in
...
When ya open kaffeine, check kaffeine settings.
Disable embed in system tray
however, given their problems, it might still run. please let me know if it does, and we'll talk about killing processes.
 
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goto -->kde control center --> kde components -->session manager -->"select" start with an empty session (instead of restore previous session)
 
Old 10-04-2004, 06:16 PM   #11
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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.
 
  


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