Hi guys, I’m dealing with an annoying problem which consist in the automatic launching of skype at start up. The application is just be launched right after the desktop is loaded.
It began to happen since 3 days ago when I had skype running but because an energy problem in my home the pc suffered a hard reset, so since then this is happening.
Do you know could I stop this ? :X
First exit Skype (Not by just closing that window, Skype continues to run in the background if you just close it and you will still see the Skype icon in the system tray).
After that, press Ctrl-Esc (in KDE) to view running processes. You search for skype there. If you see any entry, just kill it using the Kill button.
Or check in ~/.config/autostart and remove any reference to Skype.
or you could go to the system settings , session manager, and choose to start with an empty session
Alright, first thanks to all of you for your help.
Unfortunately none of the advices helped me to solve the problema.
A) I pressed Ctrl-Esc (since I use KDE) I searched for skype, but it was not there.
B) I checked @ inside my home path but there there was nothing there:
Dixie7:/home/ssenryo/.config/autostart # ll -a
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 ssenryo users 48 Apr 1 2008 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 ssenryo users 408 Jan 11 23:38 ..
And neither, nothing here:
Dixie7:~/.config # ll -a
total 66
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 232 Jan 8 10:21 .
drwx------ 33 root root 2432 May 5 14:39 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 12644 Aug 30 2008 Trolltech.conf
drwx------ 2 root root 88 Jan 7 22:52 gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 17 2008 kde.org
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Apr 24 2008 nfoview
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224 Jan 8 10:21 qtcurve.gtk-colors
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41029 Jan 8 10:21 qtcurve.gtk-icons
C) The last suggestion made by ‘maill’ I didn’t get, I guess you were talking about the system settings located once the “chameleon button” is pressed. Inside that submenu there is not such thing called “session manager”. So I guessed later you were talking about the settings presented to you at the login screen. I’ll look for something saying ‘empty session’, and I’ll let you know how it went.
Cheers to everyone and again, thanks for your help.
This is what was being referred to
http://thumbnails17.imagebam.com/3489/4941f734886057.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/4941f734886057/)
you must be using KDE 3.5 i presume?
in KDE 3.5 you could access the menu from :
Settings>KDE Components>Session Manager
and choose
on Login > start with an empty session
Have you tried to turn off the autostart in Skype? 
you must be using KDE 3.5 i presume?
in KDE 3.5 you could access the menu from :
Settings>KDE Components>Session Manager
and choose
on Login > start with an empty session
You are right, I’m using KDE 3.5 @ the moment. Ok I’ll try that.
I never set skype to start @ the system start up, actually I dont know where to change it. Could you let me know where in skype’s settings I can change that ? :sarcastic:
Alright it WORKED!!! rotfl!
The “trick”:
Settings>KDE Components>Session Manager
and choose
on Login > start with an empty session
… made the job!
Thanks to all of your for your help. Actually after I did that and started with this “empty session” I felt this time the OS loaded after the login screen all the stuff (GUI) faster than before.
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In Skype Options, under the General tab (Start minimized on systray)…
Starting with an empty session is no solution. In the session management screen there’s a line for “Applications to be excluded from session management”. Type ‘skype’ in this line, and it will not start at next login. Multiple entries are to be separated by a comma (,).
I thought that option, was intended to start skype minimized on systray but once you had launched the application by yourself. Not to mean the application was going to be started at system startup and be minimized.
Thanks Knurpht, I’ll also do that.
Cheers!
