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gnome-session package

bug in starup applications

Asked by Rajeev Nair

Hi

I have totem and firefox starting up automatically during boot.None of these are listed in the system>preferences>startup applications .

regards
rajeev

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This question was originally filed as bug #387314.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

are there symlinks to them in ~/.config/autostart ?

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Rajeev Nair (rajeev) said : 		#3

hi

I see only these in autostart

bluetooth-applet.desktop nm-applet.desktop trackerd.desktop
evolution-alarm-notify.desktop Screenlets Daemon.desktop vino-server.desktop
gnome-at-session.desktop seahorse-daemon.desktop
indicator-applet.desktop tracker-applet.desktop

Iam not sure i understand your question.

Thanks and regards
rajeev

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

can you give the output of this command, just to clarify:

cd ~/.configure/autostart; clear; ls

There are a few startup lists in Linux but this is the easiest to read.

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dnairb (dnairb) said : 		#5

You probably have Ubuntu set to "remember" applications.

To fix this:

System --> Preferences --> Startup Applications.
Options tab.
Make sure that "Automatically remember..." *is* ticked.
Close.

Close all applications not required at startup.

Restart.

No applications should be running.

Go to Startup Applications, Options tab again (as above), and this time ensure that "Automatically remember..." is *not* ticked and then close.

Restart and you should find that no programs start automatically.

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