Disable Printer Applet?

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/12/2012 11:05 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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
>
>

And, if you absolutely don't want the applet to start you can change the
Exec line to something like...

Exec=printer-applet --version   

or whatever you want.  :-)


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