Autostart phantoms

[thesun]

I am wondering if anyone out there knows why certain programs start when I boot up my machine. I recently updated Firefox (14.x) and changed the icon so it points to the new location, however each time I start up KDE automatically runs the original version (3.5.9). It reloads all the legacy Addons and starts some processes that I have to kill with -9, so it's kind of a pain. I'd like to just turn that off or else point it to start the updated Firefox if the former's not possible.

I tried looking in .kde/Autostart, in .kde/share/autostart and .config/autostart and there aren't any files there. But I'm also in a vnc session and wondered if perhaps there's a vnc autostart that's causing this?

Or are there other places to look for this phantom legacy autostarting Firefox?

It's FC11, KDE 4.4.3. Thanks for any suggestions or help!

[jpollard]

You might check for a saved session. If you ever saved a session (and then disabled saving sessions) the processes identified in the saved session will always be restarted.

I think these files are stored in .cache/sessions in your home directory.

[thesun]

Thanks! That's a good thought. I don't think I ever saved one but who knows...maybe I did. :-) I do vaguely remember selecting some programs to start on boot though. Thought perhaps they'd be in a file somewhere...just can't seem to find them.

---------- Post added at 11:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 AM ----------

Hmmm. Don't seem to have a .cache/sessions directory/file. Back to square one!

[sidebrnz]

Get everything set up exactly how you want it, then log out, selecting Save Session. When you log back in, you should still have things the way you want.

[Gareth Jones]

(Moved to EOL due to F11.)