SOLVED: Spurious programs running at KDE start

Jim plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:23:57 -0700


Thanks for the clue, Bill!.  I was having six Konqueror apps starting at 
logon - now they are gone.

On Friday 21 December 2001 10:15, you wrote:
> Awhile back there was a question about apps that mysteriously started with
> KDE.  I don't know how some programs got there, but in
>
>    .kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
>
> there were a few lines like
>
>    restartCommand4=gmc,-session,blah blah blah
>
> Commenting them out solved the problem.  I did a   ps axf    to draw the
> "ASCII Forest" of all executing jobs and found then programs in question,
> then changed into my ~/.kde directory and did a    grep -r -s prog_name *
> to find which files were talking about those programs.
>
> That ksmserverrc is a bit spooky, and I haven't seen it documented
> anywhere.
>
> At least they were text files instead of some Byzantine Registry!
>
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