Plasma KDE weird autostarting behaviour after trying out gnome

[Nukiver]

Hello everyone,

I’m running Manjaro on KDE Plasma. Since I have a touchscreen I wanted to try out GNOME and while trying it out I found it being more power hungry than KDE Plasma. So I uninstalled all Gnome packages with paru -Rnsc gnome activated sddm back and everything works fine, beside some programs autostarting even though they are not in the Autostart settings page.
I can’t seem to find out why these programs are started, and I frankly don’t want them to autostart even though they are my most frequently used programs.
Could anybody help me solve this issue?
I’ve tried installing gnome-tweaks and checked in there: The startup applications are the same as in the manjaro settings.
The applications themselves - if they have this setting - have the autostart setting disabled.
These applications are the culprit: Terminal, WALC, dolphin, Rnote, discord, element

Thanks.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @Nukiver,

Please provide the output of:

ls -laH $HOME/.config/autostart

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[Nukiver]

Hi there,

❯ ls -laH $HOME/.config/autostart
.rw-r--r-- 1 155 butom  6 Jun 18:42 bitwarden.desktop
.rw-r--r-- 1 320 butom 10 Jun 11:42 Snipaste.desktop

That’s the 2 entries I see in the settings as well. I want these to start-up automatically.

[linux-aarhus]

Other autostart entries may have been created by the package installer in /etc/xdg/autostart.

[medmedin]

Do you have “On last logout” selected in Plasma Settings> Session> Desktop Session?
If yes then Plasma will start any compatible app you didn’t close by yourself in the last logout.

If you want nothing to be remembered, change it to “Start with an empty session”.

[Nukiver]

Oh, this is interesting!

The setting was on: “When session is manually saved”
Maybe GNOME saved one session of mine, because I can’t remember pressing the save session button, but I might have misclicked on accident.
I think I have never used that feature → turned it off → fixxed the issue

I have been searching through noumerous files and arch wikis and sometimes it’s just a setting :^D

Thanks everyone.