[lug] programs that start on login

Warren Sanders warren at sandersonline.org
Fri Jan 9 09:42:22 MST 2004


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Arlan Ramsay wrote:

|I am running RH9.  I used the OpenOffice word processor once, and since
|then it opens every time I boot the machine and log in.  It doesn't take a
|lot of time to start, and it is not a lot of trouble to shut it down, but
|I would like to know how to stop it from happening.  The same happened
|under 8.0 with XCDroast.  I have looked in the places that seem obvious to
|me, including at least the index of the printed manuals that came in the
|box.  From the main menu: [Preferences, more Preferences, Session] doesn't
|offer any options.  The Startup Program list is empty.
|
Any application left open when you log out will come back upon logon.
Even if it had a stuck process.  So you may need to 'ps aux' find the
process and 'kill -9 <pid>'

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Warren Sanders
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