Hi all,

after a long time of using Gnome I decided to switch back to KDE, which was my preferred desktop environment until 3.5. Everything seems to be working except one (annoying) thing:

KDE won't restore the previous or a saved session. In System Settings > Startup > Session I tried both "Restore previous session" and "Restore manually saved session". Saving the session from the K-Menu hat no effect with the latter setting, and with both options some Gnome applications keep coming back although I disabled them in both KDE and Gnome autostart. This is especially annoying because one of those application is Gnome-Do, which is great on Gnome but blocks everything after KDE startup. I have to switch to another tty via ctrl+alt+F1 and kill Gnome-Do before I can do anything on KDE.

Under "Session Management" in the System Settings there is also an option to exclude applications from session management; but putting gnome-do in there also had no effect whatsoever.

Am I missing something here, or is there a bug I don't know about? Other than that KDE works great, and for the first time since I switched to Gnome after KDE 4.0 came out I feel like switching back, but having to deal with this every morning before I'm even really awake yet is really annoying.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Sigdrifa

Gnome-do - can you 1) find where in which autostart folder it's started from and remove it from there 2) remove the package from the system. Since save session isn't appear working at all it may affect "exclude" as I'm not sure how the "exclude" actually works but it may be superseded by autostarted apps, in that it isn't retained in the save session but since it is autostarted it will start. You could also create a small shell script that kills Gnome-do in the auto-start module of the "startup and shutdown" systemstttings module (which will allow Gnome-do to run if you run Gnome).

Restored sessions doesn't appear to be a common issue, was the ~/.kde folder still there when you ran 3.5? if so how about renaming it and starting clean or creating a new user and trying as that user.

I found 2 autostart folders; one is in ~/.kde and the other in ~/.kde/share. None of the unwanted applications are in there. Are there other possible locations?

As for KDE 3.5, it's been a long time since I used it; I basically stopped using it after KDE 4 came out, and since then I went through several clean installations and a new computer, so there can't be anything left.

I removed Gnome-do for now since I can always re-install it if I want to go back to Gnome, but there are several other programs that keep coming back, like Guake, which I don't use on KDE because I prefer Yakuake, or Glipper, which of course I don't need on KDE because there's Klipper.
Also, something else must be starting because every time I log into KDE I get at least three prompts to open the Gnome keyring, which doesn't get unlocked if I use KDM instead of GDM...

look at these folders for autostart programs (as gnome-do isn't kde it wouldn't be in a kde autostart folder)
~/Desktop/autostart
~/.config/autostart

gnome has a autostart manage utility you could try http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/h ... ter-login/

Do you run kdm or gdm?

Got it... thanks. All the offending programs were in the ~/.config/autostart folder, so I moved that to a backup location, with no effect. But disabling them in the Gnome startup list did it. I also moved the contents from the ~/.gnome2/keyrings folder to a backup location which disabled the three prompts I got at every login — just in case someone else runs into the same problem. "Save session" also seems to work now, for some strange reason I won't even try to understand.

Thanks a lot!