On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 4:26:01 AM EDT Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 18:40 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote:
> On Monday, September 7, 2020 5:53:22 PM EDT Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 2020-09-08 03:36, Garry T. Williams wrote:
> > > On Monday, September 7, 2020 1:47:50 PM EDT Mark @ GMail wrote:
> > > > I closed down the Dolphin process, logged out and logged in (that
> > > > should have saved the session, shouldn't it?), and when that
> > > > didn't do the trick I removed the suggested file from /etc/xdg,
> > > > but something is still starting Dolphin.
> > > Remove /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.dolphin.desktop
> >
> > Actually, one should not remove that file as it belongs to the
> > dolphin package.
> >
> > You can override the behavior by copying the file to your
> > ~/.config/autostart directory and add the
> >
> > Hidden=true directive.
>
> OK, I knew I shouldn't, but I didn't know how to override. So...
>
> $ sudo dnf provides /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.dolphin.desktop
> dolphin-...
> $ sudo dnf reinstall dolphin
> ...
> $ ln -s /dev/null ~/.config/autostart/org.kde.dolphin.desktop
>
> I still do not get a copy of dolphin auto-started after that. The
> dolphin package is restored and the override works fine.
Try it after saving your session with at least one Dolphin window.
Just did that and only the one instance of Dolphin was restarted.
This (masking /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.dolphin.desktop) is
effective. It eliminates any auto-start copy of Dolphin for me.
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Garry T. Williams