Re: Misbehaving Miro
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 08/15/08 15:48, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/15/08 10:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently installed Miro, the Internet TV client. At first, I said
>>>>> yes in response to the question whether it should start up whenever I
>>>>> logged in, but I changed my mind, and deselected that checkbox in
>>>>> Options. But it still insists on starting up whenever I log in. I
>>>>> can't figure out where its preferences are stored - does anyone know?
>>>>> I figure I can manually edit the preferences if only I can find them!
>>>>
>>>> Privately, someone suggested 'dpkg-reconfigure miro' but running that
>>>> presented no configuration options and made no difference. In the
>>>> %gconf.xml file (in ~/.miro/gconf/), the option runAtStartup is
>>>> "false", as it should be, but Miro still runs at startup!
>>>
>>> GNOME or KDE?
>>
>> GNOME
>
> Maybe it's autostart?
>
> System->Preferences->Sessions
Well, although NOT currently running, miro was listed as 'currently
running' in the Current Session tab. I removed it, and will hope that
on next login it doesn't start up again! Thanks for the pointer.
Patrick
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