Disable applets in Manjaro Awesome Edition

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#1

I’ve historically used the KDE release of Manjaro, but I’ve primarily been using AwesomeWM lately and when I installed on my new laptop I decided to go with the Awesome Edition of Manjaro and install my rice over the default layout.

I’ve since installed a couple of other DEs alongside Awesome (Plasma, Deepin), and when I log in to either of those the pa-applet, nm-applet, and blueman-applet all autostart, giving me redundant icons in the panel for the ones supplied by the DE. This seems to be set at the system level by the manjaro-awesome configs.

My Awesome rice has its own autostart script that starts these applets specifically when I log in to Awesome, so I would like to just disable these applets from generally autostarting , but I can’t for the life of me figure out where these are configured. Does anyone know where the configs are stored for Manjaro Awesome Edition that autostart these applets?

#2

If I remember correctly these are set in the script ~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh.

Find the corresponding lines in that file, delete (or comment) them and logout/login to see if that worked.

#3

I have tried that, and the applets still load everywhere but Awesome. I want those applets to run in the autorun.sh anyways so that they only run in Awesome. Plasma and Deepin shouldn’t be running the autorun.sh script anyways.

#4

For clarity, if these applets are removed from my .config/awesome/autorun.sh, the applets do not load when I start Awesome. They do, however, still load when launching Plasma, Deepin, or Gnome.

My suspicion was that these were somehow configured in the XFCE utilities that come pre-installed on Manjaro Awesome Edition, but I have been unable to find anything there. I can confirm that these applets only run when launching an Xsession (nothing in Wayland sessions or pre-login).

#5

I was finally able to find the configs. They were in /etc/xdg/autostart. I removed the relevant .desktop files and the applets no longer launch at login outside of Awesome