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jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

[SOLVED] KDE 5.6: How to disable blueman-applet?

I recently installed KDE 5.6.1 (plasma-desktop 5.6.1-1).  When I log in, two bluetooth icons appear on the taskbar, one native to KDE and the other from blueman-applet, which KDE is starting automatically (top shows that blueman-applet is a child of kdeinit5).  How can I disable blueman-applet so that only KDE's native bluetooth manager starts?  Uninstalling blueman-applet is not an option, since I still need it in XFCE.

I've already checked the autostart settings in KDE system settings, but it is not listed there:

Last edited by jlindgren (2016-04-01 22:10:51)

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 755

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 5.6: How to disable blueman-applet?

Check /etc/xdg/autostart, it's probably set up to start with the session on a system level.

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,171

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 5.6: How to disable blueman-applet?

Copy /etc/xdg/autostart/blueman.desktop to ~/.config/autostart, and add the line

NotShowIn=KDE

to it

Last edited by arojas (2016-04-01 22:07:09)

jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 5.6: How to disable blueman-applet?

That worked, thanks.