Skype startup

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 01/16/11 18:12, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:22 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Genes MailLists wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> ..
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint.
>> There is nothing in ~/.kde/Autostart/ (this directory is empty),
>> but I see an entry
>> 	restartCommand6=/usr/bin/skype,
>> in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc .
>> I guess this must cause skype to start on login.
>>
>> "rpm -qf" says this file is not owned by any package.
>> But I see on googling that ksmserver is "KDE's session manager".
>> However, I don't see how entries get into this file.
>> The references I find by googling all refer to files
>> that do not exist on my system.
>
> I'm guessing here, but it seems likely that the file is placed there by
> Skype itself. IIRC Skype has a preference option to start automatically
> when logging it, so maybe that's how it works. I don't have Skype on
> Linux so I can't confirm this.
>
> poc
>

AFAIK this is true for the Windows version not for the Linux version.

Paolo