Kontact at Startup

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Kontact automatically starts when I start up my computer. I can’t find the setting for this. How can I change it?

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Open Kontact (Default KDE Component) and unclick “Always start with plugin”!

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or try ctrl-q to kill kontact and not just minimise it to the system tray.

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The “always start with…” is not checked. Does pressing the “x” not quit the program? I have to to ctrl-q? If that’s the case, then that’s definitely why it was coming back up when I started. Thanks.

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that’s right, x minimises to the system tray.

by default kde will try and re-establish your previous session, obviously non-kde apps are not supported and not all kde apps are compliant.

btw you can change this behaviour by going into System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Session Management, the default for “On Login” is Restore previous session

hth :idea:

cheers
aztrix

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I think this is a different thing. To check that option doesn’t make kontact to start kontact at start up of kde. It just establishes if kontact starts with kmail, korganizer…

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MisterEwok,
in my opinion the possibilities are two:

  • you have enabled Restore previous session. So, if you close your session with kontact opened, it will open again when you start a new session. To resolve this, do what aztrix says:

btw you can change this behaviour by going into System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Session Management, the default for “On Login” is Restore previous session

  • you have Startup enabled for kontact in System settings -> Startup and shutdown -> Autostart
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Sorry for being such a newb. I don’t see “System Settings” anywhere. And “Startup and Shutdown” are not in the yast admin settings. Where is system settings?

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In my menu is called Personal settings. Anyway, if don’t find it, just write in a terminal (konsole for instance)

systemsettings

and you’ll have it.

Don’t worry. All of us had to learn. For my part I still have many easy things to learn.

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Thanks a lot (for the help as well as the encouragement). Just for the record on this thread, I found both the “Session Manager” and “Autostart” settings in “Personal Settings” under the “advanced” tab.

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Probably you are running kde 4.4. Is that right?
In kde 4.5 the distribution of topics in tabs is different. Anyway, the thing is exactly the same.
Have you managed to avoid the automatic start of kontact?

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Yes I’m running kde 4.4. It’s just the standard install of openSUSE 11.3. And yes, the issue has been resolved.

Thank you very much.