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thekore

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Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 6

[solved] Xfce4 unwanted autostarting programs

I have developed a small irritation with what i believe to be Xfce4. Upon every reboot (or cold start) of my machine. When i log into Xfce4, Chromium and a Terminal window both autostart. Chromium starts minimised and the terminal starts visable in the centre of my screen. Some information that may be relevant: Xfce 4.10, Xfwm4, Kernel 3.8.11-1-ARCH, SLiM, Xorg server 1.14.1.

I am not aware of making any changes this problem appeared out of the blue. I have checked the Session and Startup settings and the only autostart programs enabled are Power Manager and Xfsettingsd. I have checked in .config/xfce4 for an autostart folder and there isnt one. There is nothing in .xinitrc

Any help on this would be great thank you.

Last edited by thekore (2013-05-05 17:33:54)

Krarl

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2013-05-05

Posts: 5

Re: [solved] Xfce4 unwanted autostarting programs

Try enabling "Automatically save session on logout" in session and startup and then close all windows. Restart xfce. Hopefully this should clear the saved session, and now you can disable it again.

Last edited by Krarl (2013-05-05 17:03:03)

ewaller

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Re: [solved] Xfce4 unwanted autostarting programs

You might also try cleaning out ~/,config/xfce4-sessions

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thekore

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Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 6

Re: [solved] Xfce4 unwanted autostarting programs

Try enabling "Automatically save session on logout" in session and startup and then close all windows. Restart xfce. Hopefully this should clear the saved session, and now you can disable it again.

I feel like such an idiot, I was looking for the most complex solution and forgot about the most obvious. This has solved the problem, thanks Krarl

You might also try cleaning out ~/,config/xfce4-sessions

I had checked this already and the folder was empty.