On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:22 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Genes MailLists wrote: > > > On 01/16/2011 10:45 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Skype works fine under Fedora-14/KDE on my Thinkpad T43, > >> but it starts automatically when I boot and logon. > >> I'd rather start it myself when I want to. > .. > >> What exactly determines which programs startup on boot or login? > >> There doesn't seem to be any mention of skype in /etc/rc.d/ . > > > More likely this is your kde session - I don't use kde at the moment > > but there used to be a ~/.kde/Autostart - check if skype installed > > itself in there. > > Thanks for the hint. > There is nothing in ~/.kde/Autostart/ (this directory is empty), > but I see an entry > restartCommand6=/usr/bin/skype, > in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc . > I guess this must cause skype to start on login. > > "rpm -qf" says this file is not owned by any package. > But I see on googling that ksmserver is "KDE's session manager". > However, I don't see how entries get into this file. > The references I find by googling all refer to files > that do not exist on my system. I'm guessing here, but it seems likely that the file is placed there by Skype itself. IIRC Skype has a preference option to start automatically when logging it, so maybe that's how it works. I don't have Skype on Linux so I can't confirm this. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
