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12-04-2013, 05:46 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Middx UK
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0 (multilib)
Posts: 1,356
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How to disable HP Device Manager Autostart
On a fresh install of 14.1 the HP Device manager appears on in the system tray on the right in kde. I do not use HP devices, have no requirement for this and am surprised that it seems to be autostarting by default.
I can find no easy way to disable this. Googling suggests that removing /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop would do it. Is that so? Or does it just remove the icon but I would still have some unwanted process running in the background?
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12-04-2013, 05:48 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current with KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,580
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What desktop are you using?
In Xfce go to Settings > Session & Startup > Applications > Auto Start and remove the check mark to the left of the HP utility.
Last edited by cwizardone; 12-04-2013 at 05:51 PM.
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12-04-2013, 05:59 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Middx UK
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0 (multilib)
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kde I have already looked in System Settings/ Startup and Shutdown/ and I cannot see it there. Unless it is 'Printer Manager'.
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12-04-2013, 07:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Distribution: slackware!
Posts: 1,398
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I've moved it to /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop-DISABLED and it doesn't startup.
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12-04-2013, 08:08 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Distribution: Slackware 14.1
Posts: 3,482
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PITA huh, the presumption that everyone needs or wants that service running? Kind of like Windows....
* Create $HOME/.config/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop
* In that text file add this:
[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=true
In addition to that, because I don't want the service running at all, I delete /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop. I delete the file because the file gets updated every time hplip gets updated.
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12-04-2013, 08:30 PM
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Registered: Dec 2008
Distribution: Slackware64 Current
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Quote:
Originally Posted by glorsplitz
I've moved it to /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop-DISABLED and it doesn't startup.
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Or change the permission to 640 to prevent the startup for ordinary users.
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12-04-2013, 10:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Monterrey, México
Distribution: Slackware64 Current
Posts: 33
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If you don't need it ...
removepkg hplip
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1 members found this post helpful.
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12-05-2013, 05:08 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Middx UK
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Thanks for all that. It seems to me that there is no reason to keep the package at all.
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12-05-2013, 11:15 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2011
Posts: 925
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HPLIP was auto-started since it was added to Slackware 12.0, but the taskbar notification icon was hidden by default. So maybe they changed the default configuration.
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