Tuesday, December 15, 2015

startup - Disable Auto-start Application


I couple of versions of Ubuntu ago I setup a program to start automatically when the computer turns on. It is of no use to me at this point, and I want to disable it now. The problem is, I can't figure out how I did it. I've looked in:



  • Startup Applications (gnome-session-properties)

  • ~/.config/autostart

  • ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/

  • /etc/init.d/

  • /etc/gdm/


Is there somewhere else I might have set it? Or is there a way to trace how a running program was started? Couldn't find anything like that in System Monitor.



Just grep it:


sudo grep -IRF onboard /etc 2> /dev/null

and if unsuccessful


grep -lIRF onboard ~/.[^.]* 2> /dev/null

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