Strange problem at login, the Konqueror browser pops up

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi!

A few days ago, when I logged in, I was very surprised to see the Konqueror browser pop up behind the Ahoy this is openSUSE panel.

I don’t even use Konqueror much, I have it loaded as one of several browsers I generally use only to test websites.

Naturally when I saw it start, I checked the settings to see if it had somehow gotten into the list of things that should Autostart at login. But it’s not there.

Even though I didn’t think it would cause the browser to pop up after login, I also tried to check to see if somehow it thought it had open pages the last time it ran and was somehow interrupted. I checked in
$HOME/.local/share/konqueror and found a file “closeditems_saved” . The file seemingly contained a list of several windows and their attributes. So I emptied the file.

Even though I make a point of closing the browser window, the thing still pops up the next time I login.

I’d appreciate it if anyone who has some thoughts that might help solve the problem, would share them with me.

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I don’t know what causes your problem.

However: I suggest you go to

Settings → Configure Konqueror → KDE performance.

Make sure that both boxes are unchecked. Otherwise it tries to keep a running konqueror process around.

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Thanks!

I use Konqueror so little that I didn’t even know that those settings existed, so I didn’t change them. One of them was checked, so that was causing the problem. The system freezes, perhaps on average about once per day, and that goes back at least to release 15.3. When it happens there is usually some multiple windowing system events taking place at the same time, and there are strange complaints about windowing issues in the /var/log/warn file. My guess is that there is a bug in the windowing system. It forces me to shutdown the system using the power button. So now I have to wonder if there might have been some minor corruption in a file system, that didn’t otherwise show up, but corrupted some settings.