[Techtalk] K tea-time starts every day :(

Wim De Smet kromagg at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 11:08:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Anne Wainwright
<anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> Glen, hi,
>
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:46:53 -0400
> Glen wrote:
>
> |> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:33:44 +0200
> |> Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> |>
> |> >Hi,
> |> >
> |> >Sorry, silly little question. How do I stop this utility from
> |starting > >at boot up every time I switch on?
> |> >
> |> >I have looked and looked, and cannot to no avail.
> |> >
> |> >simple instructions gratefully received
> |> >
> |> I don't know which distro you're running, but there's probably a
> |> startup file in /usr/share/autostart called kteatime.desktop. (I
> |> think /usr is now the default location for KDE in most distros). You
> |> could delete the file, but you might want to move it somewhere for
> |> safekeeping instead, just in case some day you want it.
>
> There are a lot of k-things in there. I'm running debian, and since i
> use gnome I wonder why. none of them make sense and none are called
> kteatime. I'll rename one of the likely looking suspects and see what
> happens.

A stab in the dark here but try:
1) exit all applications that you don't want to start when you login
(including kteatime)
2) go to preferences->sessions, on the last tab there should be a
button to save the session
3) click that button
4) logout, login, check if it's gone.

greets,
Wim


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