need to blacklist KDE autostart applications

shoelesshunter · 2023-03-04 01:47:27

I use KDE Plasma (with i3). I have Zoiper5 installed from the AUR for work. After each DE reload, it autostarts. Furthermore, it starts in a glitchy window I must kill with 'kill' to gain access to my desktop. For some reason, KDE is adding it to the autostart list without my say-so.

I have noticed it does this with knotes as well. Opening either of these applications one time adds it to autostart.

How can I blacklist any or all (I autostart stuff with i3.config anyway) applications from being added to autostart without my permission?

seth · 2023-03-04 09:04:15

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Autostart
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Autostart
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Re … ed_session (probably disable that)

shoelesshunter · 2023-03-05 15:52:29

KDE "restore desktop" is definitely disabled. I've tested it, and it does not actually restore anything open at the end of the session.

What happens is opening Zoiper one time adds an entry for it to KDE's autostart items, seen in System Preferences. Even when the application is closed at the time the KDE session ends, it has an autostart entry and loads in a frozen, glitching window I must manually kill from cli to use my desktop.

There are no references to it anywhere but in the KDE config which KDE itself is writing to (as far as I can tell).

This may be a bug (or undesired feature) that I should bring up with the KDE team.

I suppose I could make KDE's relevant config immutable, and see if that temporarily stops this. Or I could add a logout parameter to erase the entries when I log out of the system.

seth · 2023-03-05 15:57:25

There are no references to it anywhere but in the KDE config which KDE itself is writing to (as far as I can tell).

What file and what entry is that exactly?

shoelesshunter · 2023-03-05 17:17:45

it looks like it is

.config/kded5rc

according to this
https://github.com/shalva97/kde-configuration-files

seth · 2023-03-05 17:24:16

That's the kded config, is Zoiper really referenced there?

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need to blacklist KDE autostart applications

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