Cannot completely stop wicd starting

[t1234]

After experimenting with wicd I've gone back to network manager. All is well on the networking front however I am having trouble stopping wicd completely.

I've stopped it starting up the daemon

chkconfig --list | grep wicd

returns empty

but when my kde windows starts up the wicd try icon start up.

Do you know how I can stop this ?

Thanks

[CSchwangler]

First thought: wicd my be among the automatically started applications. I don't have KDE, but in Gnome under System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications there is, for instance, Network Manager listed. Maybe there is something similar under KDE?

Second thought:
chkconfig --list|grep ":on"

shows a list of services which are started on any particular runlevel. Just in case it is named otherwise than wicd.

[t1234]

It is actually called wicd, it used to be in there until I removed it.

I'm assuming that the wicd daemon is not starting up at boot but the wicd tray icon is starting as part of kde startup but I cannot find any reference to it.

[R3353]

That's odd. What version of WICD?

[t1234]

its wicd 1.6.2

its still exists,

$ whereis wicd
wicd: /usr/sbin/wicd /etc/wicd /usr/lib/wicd /usr/share/wicd /usr/share/man/man8/wicd.8

but not showing in kpackagekit or with yum erase.

[R3353]

like what CSchwangler was saying, I have "WICD network manager tray" in GNOME's startup applications. KDE has "autostart" under the advanced user settings. WICD didn't make it in there did it?

[t1234]

no its not in there

[R3353]

check if you have /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop

if so, remove it.

This would be a direct way to handle it. If it doesn't, I have a KDE workaround that is less of a solution.

[t1234]

I tried removing /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop it still started at boot.

So I've just clobbered every executable and directory trace of wicd ... which has done the trick.

Thanks for your help!

[R3353]

Apparently that's one heck of a resilient tray icon. Sorry we couldn't find a more direct solution.