Unwanted program automatically launching at startup

Jenda Vancura jendavancura at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 21:32:45 UTC 2006


Steve Zatz wrote:

>I am running an up-to-date version of dapper on an IBM Thinkpad T30. 
>For some reason after I log in and the gnome desktop loads, Rhythmbox
>launches automatically.  This is not a good thing because there is an
>inaccessible Samba share that causes Rhythmbox to freeze.  I have
>looked under the Startup tab of Preferences/Sessions... and Rhythmbox
>is not there, and so I have no idea what is causing it to launch
>automatically.   I have also searched the hard disk looking for some
>configuration file that references Rhythmbox but have not been able to
>come up with anything.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Steve
>
>  
>
AFAIK, all you have to do is close rythmbox, go to the log out screen, 
check the "save settings" checkbox, logout, login - DONE.
You should close all programs, in fact, except for those that you want 
to start at startup.

Jenda




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