Can't prevent guidance from starting on login

[DrSpirograph]

Binary package hint: kde-guidance

I've replaced guidance with kpowersave, but now I get both of them starting when I login to my session.
I've tried looking for an option in the guidance configuration screen.
I've looked in .kde/share/config/session to ensure there's no session for it.
I've looked in .kde/Autostart
I've put guidance-power-manager in Applications to be excluded from sessions in the Session Manager configuration.
I've looked in Service Manager settings to see if it's there and can be disabled.

None of these have worked.
This is way to hard to stop a system tray applet from starting - ideal would be a question when I quit, do I want to start guidance next time I login.

Please make it easier to choose an alternative power management tool.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Powermanager is started through this file:
/usr/share/autostart/guidance-power-manager.desktop

I agree that this should be made configurable. For now, it is easiest to just remove "kde-guidance-powermanager" package completely if you do not use it.

[Urs Fleisch (ufleisch)]

Here is another way to disable guidance-power-manager with the advantage of being user-specific and surviving an update of the kde-guidance-powermanager package:

test -d $HOME/.kde/share/autostart || mkdir -p $HOME/.kde/share/autostart
cp /usr/share/autostart/guidance-power-manager.desktop $HOME/.kde/share/autostart/
echo "X-KDE-autostart-condition=notexisting:General:Autostart:false" >>$HOME/.kde/share/autostart/guidance-power-manager.desktop

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Guidance Power Manager has been removed from Kubuntu 10.04 and onwards since it is unmaintained. Unfortunately, this means that no new features or bugfixes will be made.