Skype startup

Paolo Galtieri pgaltieri at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 16:15:56 UTC 2011


On 01/16/11 08:45, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Skype works fine under Fedora-14/KDE on my Thinkpad T43,
> but it starts automatically when I boot and logon.
> I'd rather start it myself when I want to.
>
> Is this easy to set up?
> What exactly determines which programs startup on boot or login?
> There doesn't seem to be any mention of skype in /etc/rc.d/ .
>
>

Under Gnome there is a setting to remember running programs 
(System->Preferences->Startup Applications).  If you have this option 
set and you ran skype at some point and logged out then whenever you 
login skype will start.

Paolo


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