<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>wow, that's good advice. thank you</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>f</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 11/10/2005, at 12:53 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">startkde is a shellscript. At some point it executes the programs it finds in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">KDE's autostart directory, which usually includes kdesktop (which you do not<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">want) and kicker (which you want)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You can just remove the .desktop files of the applications you don't want to<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">have autostarted.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>