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stri

Member

Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 75

persistent system-wide changes to KDE background service

Hi, I have a weird external monitor with broken EDID and want to disable kscreen system-wide (for all users). I'd like to keep the package though, don't want to uninstall it.

Setting

 
X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false

in

/usr/share/kservices5/kded/kscreen.desktop

works,  but this file is overwritten when updating kscreen. So I need to move it to /etc? But where? I tried /etc/xdg/autostart/ but this has no effect, the above /usr/share/... location seems to take precedence. Should be a common problem, but can't find the answer.

Thanks for your help, Stefan

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: persistent system-wide changes to KDE background service

You can use pacman.conf's NoExtract or run "chattr +i file" to make the file immutable (on ext4).

stri

Member

Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 75

Re: persistent system-wide changes to KDE background service

Awesome, good to know. Thanks a lot!