Why does GNU Image Manipulation Program open every single startup after using it once on openSUSE? How do I fix it?

I used GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) once last week. Now every time I boot up openSUSE, it launches GIMP! I close it, but it's annoying. Why does it do this and how can I fix it? Is there some master list of apps/processes/whatever that have registered themselves to respawn across reboots or something, where I could find and clear things like this?

I guess reinstalling it would probably work, but that's pretty lame if I have to uninstall & reinstall a program every single time I want to use it, unless I plan to have it always running

Nathan Smith

Posted 2017-10-10T07:08:21.810

Reputation: 103

Are you sure you actually quit from program and not just closed a window? – atype – 2017-10-10T07:25:52.807

I quit using the gui rather than by, e.g. pkill -9 [name_of_binary] so I can't be 100% sure how it interpreted me trying to close it. Is there a config file I could look at to see any programs that are being preserved across boots as still running/background processes/whatever? – Nathan Smith – 2017-10-10T21:07:10.083

Answers

You should check if your desktop environment is saving the open applications and restores them on the next login.

As an arbitrary example, this is what xfce's session manager can do:

you can also check (and configure) if any additional applications are started automatically, and modify that list:

Other desktop environments offer similar ways to set this up, so you should check the documentation for your KDE - I'm not using that, so I can't really be more specific.

Michael Schumacher

Posted 2017-10-10T07:08:21.810

Reputation: 811

1thanks! I found similar options under Configure Desktop => Startup & Shutdown => Desktop Session => On Login, which I set to 'Start with an empty session'

pretty sure that's gonna do it – Nathan Smith – 2017-10-10T21:03:41.403