How do I stop appls from "auto starting" on xfce's will?

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

I know it has to do with session and startup>sessions...what I find is that this list is a magnet for certain processes...it randomly puts a few processes (that I might have run) into it's list and sets it's restart style to immediately or never or if running or always...that is too random.

One such process is xfce4-power-manager, I'm pissed with the fact I see 4 to 5 instances of it running on startup (obviously I just want 1), I have to kill them every-time I boot, and remove it from session and startup>sessions, cause that too comes there every-time on boot.

Another process is nautilus...if I start it, it always gets listed on this list.

Now I have Firefox listed, I hope it doesn't start on reboot.

So how do I stop or actually control this notoriously magnetic startup list?

s0ulslack · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

This is all user error, your saving your Session on logout. Set things how you want on a fresh start, save on logout and then relogin and disable saving on logout.

Other then that, its things in Settings-> Session & Startup-> Autostart or from stuff in /etc/xdg/autostart/

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

Settings-> Session & Startup-> Autostart

Yes, I know this one.

Thanks I'll try it.

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

No.

It did not work.

The behavior is persistent.

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

Can you tell me a place where this startup application's list is stored?...I'll make it read-only.

s0ulslack · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

hah that works too, the Saved Session stuff is in ~/.cache/sessions/

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

Ok, thanks...will try that.