autostarted applications

[Mike Perry]

I can confirm. You can also edit these via xfce4-session-settings. Checking
and unchecking in that dialog essentially toggles Hidden. I know you said
you didn't want to use the GUI, but you could use it to compare behaviors.

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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Which files can I edit or delete to disable certain autostarted
> >> applications?  I tried deleting everything in .config/xfce4/autostart
> >> but hplip and wicd still start.  I'm trying to script this so I can't
> >> use the GUI.
> >>
> >> - Grant
> >
> > Hello Grant,
> >
> > Those autostarted applications are defined in /etc/xdg/autostart/.
> > They're placed there by your distributor who thinks it would be nice to
> > have them in autostart without user interaction for a better experience.
> > If you don't want that this are automatic started, you have three
> > options:
> > 1. delete the files from /etc/xdg/autostart/. Easy thing, but files
> > could be readded if you update the owning package,
> > 2. copy the files from /etc/xdg/autostart/ you want to disable to
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart/ (defaults to $HOME/.config/autostart/) and
> > add »Hidden=true« at the end of the file. That's what the GUI would do
> > for configuration on a per-user-base, or
> > 3. add the »Hidden=true« option to the file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ to
> > change the system-default, so every user has to explicit enable it.
>
> That worked perfectly, thank you.  For reference, it looks like
> Hidden=true does prevent the apps from starting instead of just hiding
> them.
>
> - Grant
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