[NTLUG:Discuss] Distro Advice

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:15:47PM -0500, Ralph Green wrote:
> Whenever I log in, I have 2 programs launch that I don't want to
> launch.  One is the synaptics trackpad manager.  It always gives me an
> error that it can't find a synaptics trackpad.  I ran the program
> once, by accident, when I was intending to launch synaptic, the
> package utility.  And, nautilus launches and shows me my home
> directory.  My startup would go quicker if I did not have to wait for
> those to finish drawing and then close them.

Under Kubuntu 12.04, perhaps check 
  System settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Autostart
and see if the applications appear there; if so, remove them.

While there, I always go to the "Session Management" option
and select "Start with an empty session", so that KDE doesn't
try to restore whatever I had open at the last shutdown.

You might also check System settings -> Input devices -> Touchpad and
see if there are options there to disable the synaptics stuff.

Is it really Nautilus that is starting up?  I thought that was
a Gnome thing, not a KDE thing.

Pm