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uKev

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Registered: 2017-08-23

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Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

Hello,

for some time chromium gets started automatically everytime I log into gnome 3. I can't find any reason where this comes from.

I've already checked out:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … #Autostart
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … plications

# grep -Ri chromium /etc/xdg/autostart/
# grep -Ri chromium /home/ukev/.config/autostart/
#

I've also checked gnome-session-properties and gnome-tweak-tool.

Do you have any idea where this autostart could come from?

Thanks.

jasonwryan

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

Presumably, Gnome has some sort of "save session" functionality that you have previously enabled.

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uKev

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

You mean this?

http://i.imgur.com/CMSMXAB.png

Last edited by jasonwryan (2017-08-23 21:21:04)

jasonwryan

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

Yes.

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uKev

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

Sorry, I thought 27KB is small enough to inline. Maybe the pixel limit should be mentioned here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#img
(I will avoid it for future posts).

I've read more about the gnome session storage, it saves the sessions inside ~/.config/gnome-session - but this folder is empty:

~/.config$ find gnome-session/
gnome-session/
gnome-session/saved-session
~/.config$ 

Do you have any other ideas?

Slithery

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

The folder isn't empty, it contains the saved-session file which is what's causing chromium to autostart.

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uKev

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

saved-session is just an empty folder:

~/.config$ ls -lah gnome-session/saved-session/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 ukev ukev  0 Apr 12  2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 ukev ukev 26 Apr 12  2011 ..

Slithery

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

Sorry, I thought it was a file.

Try enablig saved sessions in the dialog you posted, closing all your open applications, then restarting Gnome. Disable saved sessions when your done.

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c00ter

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Re: Gnome 3 autostarts chromium on login

If you want a GUI-fied front end, you might want to consider installing gnome-session-properties from the AUR.

One of the things I like best about the 'Linux' we have nowadays, versus 15 years ago, is a nice selection of reliable, trustworthy tools with graphical frontends. If I had to do a substantial amount of configuration in a command line environment nowadays--was forced to--I'd go back to DR-DOS.

Last edited by c00ter (2017-08-24 16:19:43)

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