>> I'm running the latest KDE from kde-testing: >> kdebase-4.1.96-1.fc10.x86_64, etc >> >> I notice that every time I restart my desktop nm-applet and >> guidance-power-manager restart. I'm also running the kdenetwork applet and >> the battery manager plasmoid, and don't think I need these gnome applets, >> but I can't figure out how to get rid of them. I can quit them, but they >> always restart. >> >> There are no entries in ~/.kde/Autostart, nor are there any listings in >> the "Autostart" portion of systemsettings. Session management seems to be >> working in general, in that normal applications are restarted if and only >> if they were running when I logged out last. But these two applets seem >> impossible to kill. >> >> Am I right in thinking that I don't need them, and if so, how do I keep them >> from starting (short of removing them from my system altogether?). > Gnome autostart apps are in /etc/xdg/autostart. Right. The autostarting situation is currently a mess. The preference managers in KDE and GNOME both do the wrong thing. To fix it, copy gnome-power-manager.desktop and nm-applet.desktop (and whatever else you want to stop from autostarting in KDE) from /etc/xdg/autostart/ to ~/.config/autostart/. Then append the line "NotShowIn=KDE;" to each file. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html for an explanation of how this is supposed to work.
