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Nick
Asked: 2013-07-03 10:22:11 +0800 CST

how do I remove a startup application from the command line?

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In Xubuntu, how do I remove a startup application that was set in Menu –> Setting –> Settings Manager –> Sessions and Startup without using the GUI? My startup command breaks the gui, and I need to disable it using the command line.

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2 Answers

  1. Quoting the Xfce Docs ("Some of my applications are always started when I login"):

    You can also manually delete those files in ~/Desktop/Autostart and ~/.config/autostart.

    For example: open a terminal, type

    cd ~/.config/autostart
ls

    then rm the files that you want to delete.

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  2. You can disable autostart entries by hiding them with a higher-precedence entry.

    If you don't have it yet, create your own autostart folder:

    mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart

    and then create .desktop files matching the names of the ones you want to disable from /etc/xdg/autostart (or other sources such as /usr/share/gnome/autostart).

    For example, disabling print-applet:

    cat > ~/.config/autostart/print-applet.desktop <<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Hidden=true
EOF
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