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Today's Topics:

1. KDE startup app problem (Andrew McLean)
2. Fwd: KDE startup app problem (Andrew McLean)
3. Re: Fwd: KDE startup app problem (Shane McEwan)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:42:49 +0000
From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] KDE startup app problem
Message-ID: <550C3FF9.6030502@gmail.com>
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Hi chaps,

I'm running Mint 17.1 & KDE 64-bit.

I wanted to start up with a few (3...) terminal windows open on my
Desktop, so I started
Autostart Manager, and added one entry for Konsole, with a "--workdir
~/data/test"
as an option. This is the first time I've used Autostart Manager, and I
expected it to
open a single Konsole window on start up.
What it actually did was to continually open new Konsole windows;
presumably it
would eventually run out of memory and fail in some way. Instead, I
found that I
could click on one of the windows and "close" it, and it stopped
creating new ones.
Did I do something wrong ? Shouldn't it just open a single Konsole window ?

Comments welcomed...
Andrew M.




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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:50:17 +0000
From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Fwd: KDE startup app problem
Message-ID: <550C41B9.1010900@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"

Apologies - I was a bit premature with my previous question. The problem is
actually with Konsole and not Autostart. When I type 'konsole' at a
command prompt
it starts launching multiple terminal windows continuously
I'm still foxed, tho.
Andrew M.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: KDE startup app problem
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:42:49 +0000
From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>



Hi chaps,

I'm running Mint 17.1 & KDE 64-bit.

I wanted to start up with a few (3...) terminal windows open on my
Desktop, so I started
Autostart Manager, and added one entry for Konsole, with a "--workdir
~/data/test"
as an option. This is the first time I've used Autostart Manager, and I
expected it to
open a single Konsole window on start up.
What it actually did was to continually open new Konsole windows;
presumably it
would eventually run out of memory and fail in some way. Instead, I
found that I
could click on one of the windows and "close" it, and it stopped
creating new ones.
Did I do something wrong ? Shouldn't it just open a single Konsole window ?

Comments welcomed...
Andrew M.



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:03:36 +0000
From: Shane McEwan <shane@mcewan.id.au>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Fwd: KDE startup app problem
Message-ID: <550C44D8.1010800@mcewan.id.au>
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You didn't try starting a Konsole from your .bashrc file or something,
did you? Because each time you open a new shell, i.e. opening a Konsole,
you'll end up opening ANOTHER Konsole as your .bashrc is run which will
open ANOTHER Konsole, and so on until you run out of memory.

When I want KDE to open windows when I login I just set everything up
the way I like it and then choose "Save session" from the logout menu (I
might not be getting the names right, I don't have KDE in front of me at
the moment.)

Alternatively, simply create some files in ~/.config/autostart that
start the programs you want. For example:

cat ~/.config/autostart/konsole1

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/konsole --workdir ~/data/test
Name=Konsole


Shane.


On 20/03/15 15:50, Andrew McLean wrote:
> Apologies - I was a bit premature with my previous question. The problem is
> actually with Konsole and not Autostart. When I type 'konsole' at a
> command prompt
> it starts launching multiple terminal windows continuously
> I'm still foxed, tho.
> Andrew M.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: KDE startup app problem
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:42:49 +0000
> From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
> To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>
> Hi chaps,
>
> I'm running Mint 17.1 & KDE 64-bit.
>
> I wanted to start up with a few (3...) terminal windows open on my
> Desktop, so I started
> Autostart Manager, and added one entry for Konsole, with a "--workdir
> ~/data/test"
> as an option. This is the first time I've used Autostart Manager, and I
> expected it to
> open a single Konsole window on start up.
> What it actually did was to continually open new Konsole windows;
> presumably it
> would eventually run out of memory and fail in some way. Instead, I
> found that I
> could click on one of the windows and "close" it, and it stopped
> creating new ones.
> Did I do something wrong ? Shouldn't it just open a single Konsole window ?
>
> Comments welcomed...
> Andrew M.
>
>
>
>
>
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