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dopewalker1

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 11

arch loads with many programs running (from past shutdown)

Hey, i remember this one time i was working on a paper and I think I shut down with all my programs running (i think i was in a hurry). Since then, I've booted up many times and every time I do, all those programs run at startup. I'm unsure of where I can stop these programs from running (perhaps I can simply change their locations so they can't run) but does Arch have some kind of similar program from Windows called "msconfig" which allows you to control which programs run at startup?

Thanks.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: arch loads with many programs running (from past shutdown)

If you are running xfce, when you logout, untick "save session for future logins."  You can remove the prompt in the sessions dialog from the preferences menu.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: arch loads with many programs running (from past shutdown)

"Autoloading" has nothing to do with *arch* as such, it's a feature of some desktop environments, like xfce, gnome or kde. You need to look there. tigrmesh said how to do it with xfce. I think gnome has something like "session manager" in its system menu - check that one. I'm sure KDE has something similar, you should go through the control center.

dopewalker1

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 11

Re: arch loads with many programs running (from past shutdown)

Thanks... yeah I'm running KDE and I previously looked through the Control Center without finding anything. I looked through it again carefully and found what I was looking for. Thanks for the help though!