Disable Printer Applet?

[Rex Dieter]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Ben wrote:

> On 01/10/2012 08:52 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Ben<cricketc at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm running Fedora 16 - KDE 4.7.4. On login, the Printer Applet always
>>> starts, and I'd like to disable it. Is there a way to do that without
>>> un-installing kdeutils-printer-applet?
>> 
>> Copy /usr/share/autostart/printer-applet.desktop to
>> $HOME/.kde/Autostart and add Hidden=true to the bottom, e.g. on a
>> terminal:
>> cp /usr/share/autostart/printer-applet.desktop ~/.kde/Autostart/
>> echo 'Hidden=true'>>  ~/.kde/Autostart/printer-applet.desktop
>> 
>> Identically named files in your personal autostart directory override
>> those in the systemwide directories, and adding "Hidden=true" disables
>> it from autostarting.  This way you can disable it without removing
>> the package or affecting other users on your system.
>
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for me yet.
>
> bash-4.2$ cat ~/.kde/Autostart/printer-applet.desktop | grep "Hidden"
> Hidden=true
>
> But it still starts up when I log out and log back in. Any other thoughts? 
> Would I have to remove the desktop file from /usr/share/autostart completely?

Try ~/.kde/share/autostart instead of ~/.kde/Autostart

-- rex