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Old 01-13-2007, 12:13 PM   #1
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Startup Programs in KDE

KDE has some programs that won't stop starting up. There seems to be three locations for startup apps. /Docs/Tim/.kde/Autostart for programs I want to startup. Another location for programs left open when the session ends, and another location for applications to have an option inside the program for startup

I have this problem where Suse's updater applet, klamav, and synopsis touchpad program startup, and I can't find where to stop them.
 
Old 01-13-2007, 12:20 PM   #2
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Use the ps -aux commandto see running apps. Thenyou can use the kill command or pkill command to kill the app before shutting down. Then do anormal shutdown and should fix it.

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That never seems to help, they always startup, I've killed that suse updater applet so many times....
 
Old 01-13-2007, 01:39 PM   #4
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Many places like the ones you mention as to where things can be autostarted. Not familiar with Suse so not sure what other files to check.

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Maybe your session-manager is set to "Restore Previous Session?"
KDE-Components-Session Manager, you need to set it to start with an empty session.
 
Old 01-17-2007, 03:38 PM   #6
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If its using "Restore Previous Session" then killing it would have fixed the problem. But it didn't, so its thats not the problem
 
Old 01-17-2007, 04:33 PM   #7
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I found /etc/xdg/autostart with the suse updater applet in there, I believe I've solved this... BTW, wats xdg and why isn't it in a kde folder?
 
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Wait, I've also found /opt/kde3/share/autostart which explains why klipper starts up... But I see a lot of stuff inn therre that doesn't startup...
 
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I guess I shouldn't leave any post unanswered -- I had found that stuff in /opt/kde3/share/Autostart was full of .desktop files, and they each had an autostart entry, which sometimes specifies the corresponding config file in ~/.kde/share/config that had an autostart entry you could use to turn off per user
 
  


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