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Stopping sdrangel autostart
I installed sdrangel but it auto starts on plasma startup i can not find where it has hiden the autostart link can anyone point me in the direction to look as i have as i can not find it anywhere

Thanks Pete

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Are normally found in System Settings > System > Autostart

What exactly did you install and how?

Maybe sdrangel-bin from the AUR?

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You probably have Plasma start with a saved session. Set it up to start with a blank session first, log out, and then log back in. Report back on whether it makes a difference. :thinking:

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yes the AUR bin the actual program works fine it is jut i dont need it auto starting every time i boot the PC

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Ah, was going to add a bit about sessions but no need now.

As an aside - even with sessions inadvertently saved - I’m still surprised at how many people apparently just hit ‘shutdown’ with X number of windows open.

Here that would only really happen in the case of some sort of freeze.

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That will delete a lot of stuff i d not really want to have to go thru setting up aagain . I use folder view dont really want to have to redo all that

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If you are using saved sessions then the session is going to be reloaded the same way it was left … thats kinda the point.
So if sdrangel is left open with a saved session it follows that it would be there again when that session is loaded - if not desired then sdrangel should be closed before saving the session.
It might be noted also that there is more than just on/off for the sessions and you have the option to set Session Restore to “When session is manually saved” as well.

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Maybe that’s exactly why they do so — they see their computers as appliances and treat them as such.

Likewise. Whenever I need to reboot or shut down — the latter being rare and usually only due to an announced power outage — I always close every application window manually first, just so as to make sure that there aren’t any pending I/O operations anywhere when the system goes down. I’ve seen too many race conditions in other distributions in the past, and it usually ends in a bad manner.

That said, I think that exiting with a saved session is probably the default in Plasma ISOs these days. Not a good decision, but then again, I don’t make the ISOs. :face_with_diagonal_mouth: :man_shrugging:

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I never used to shut the system down but being a pensioner on the lowwer end of the pension scale i cant afford to leave it running i will have a look at the suggestions tomorrow

Thanks Folk

Peten

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I’ve experienced quite a number of issues - clashes between SESSION and AUTOSTART.

The last time I had a saved session I ended up with extra instances of Conky stacked on top of each other - it was crazy and not easily explained…

So my advice is not to go with both - it’s a buggy recipe which can lead to glitchy execution.

You don’t have to REMOVE autostart entries, just tick them off to disable them, so what to do:

  1. Start a fresh session, disable your autostart entries. Set up your session and save it.
  2. Disable session restore, and stick with autostart.

Sure, it’s much easier just to pull the plug out of the wall :wink: and actually not such a dangerous plan as it used to be unless you have spinning rust.

A fair few brown-outs around here lead to some very untidy shutdowns and to be fair I’ve found the system very robust in that respect… though my preference would be to stick with the rtc sleep/wake scheduler which allows me to get a nice wakeup alarm.

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Right got it sorted many thanks folks change to

On login launch app that were open on last logout make sure sdrangel IS closed before shutting down

Thanks again all

now to sort spyserver out Humm

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