Skype startup

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Sun Jan 16 16:44:30 UTC 2011


On 01/16/2011 10:45 AM, 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/ .
> 
> 

  More likely this is your kde session - I don't use kde at the moment
but there used to be a ~/.kde/Autostart - check if skype installed
itself in there.

  The directory may have moved ... but hopefully it helps.

  There also used to be (kde 3.5) a GUI to control which programs are
autostarted ...

 g


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