I have wicd
, hplib
and psensor
installed. But they all always a run at startup in KDE environment. How can I stop them running at startup?
Ubuntu – How to control programs run at startup
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I have wicd
, hplib
and psensor
installed. But they all always a run at startup in KDE environment. How can I stop them running at startup?
Best Answer
KDE provides a wonderful tool in systemsettings ("Startup and Shutdown" -> "Autostart") for managing your personal autostart services (in either of the .kde directories) however it doesn't cover systemwide autostart scripts provided by your distribution packages, or created by the gnome apps.
Sometimes however it can be useful to override your distribution autostart preferences, for example I don't like having the printer-applet running as I don't own a printer, but it seems a shame to uninstall it in case I need it.
The correct way to disable a package installed is actually to copy it to your personal autostart folder. Anything of the same name in
~/.kde/share/autostart
and/or/usr/share/autostart/
(also can be~/.kde4/Autostart
) overrides the .desktop file in the default installations. Once we have copied the .desktop file we can make changes. Add the following line to the .desktop file you have just copied:KDE also restores your session when you log in, so if
psensor
is running when you log out, it will be started up again when you log in. To change that, just closepsensor
(i.e. actually quit the program, don't just close the window). Ifpsensor
is not running when you log out, it should not start up again when you log back in.