qShutdown Autostart

[dava]

Everytime I start qShutdown, the program adds itself to the autostart (it also does with deactivated 'autostart' option).

OS:
Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
GNOME 2.30.2 (Ubuntu 2010-06-25)

[hakaishi (hakaishi)]

Sorry about that. At first I didn't know how to make it so that one can choose autostart within qshutdown. But this issue was solved quit long ago. The problem is, that I can't update the version of qshutdown once the Debian import freeze is over https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze .

There are two solutions for this. You can download the source, compile and install it manually it ( https://launchpad.net/qt-shutdown-p/qshutdown-trunk/qshutdown-release )

Or the easier way: Try adding the launchpad PPA -> https://launchpad.net/~hakaishi/+archive/qshutdown ( at "Technical details about this PPA". And https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html ).

There have been many many issues (annoying window reappears the whole time and many more) solved with the newer versions. The actual version on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin is 1.6.1 but this isn't the newest version as well.

If you want that qshutdown is always actual, try adding the launchpad PPA. You can see the actual Debian version (also quite actual. This is from where Ubuntu imports it's programs till the Debian import freeze) here -> http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-qapps.html

Greetings, Hakaishi

[hakaishi (hakaishi)]

Note that there are also issues that have nothing to do with qshutdown it self. E.g. with Unity there "might" be no tray icon (there is a description at the man page and in the info window of qshutdown how to solve this ( for newer versions, I think since 1.5.x). With gnome shell (Ubuntu Precise) the shutdown/reboot command calls a dialog (because of problems within Ubuntu itself -> "gnome-session-quit --power-off --force --no-prompt" also calls the dialog, but it shouldn't...

[hakaishi (hakaishi)]

There might be another solution for you... but I must know the version of qshutdown you are using. If you don't want to update to the actual version, could you tell me why?

[dava (dava)]

I'm using version 1.6.2 and I added qshutdown to my package sources long time ago. I install the new version right now. Maybe it helps.

Thanks for your quick answer and solution.

[hakaishi (hakaishi)]

This is strange. I didn't change the autostart since a little while ago. What autostart are you using? - Only the one you can set in the preferences? There the file qshutdown.desktop in the folder ~/.config/autostart/ is created. If you remove the hook for autostart in the preferences and click on OK then this file should be deleted.
When using the autostart program from Ubuntu (with Precise Pangolin it is gnome-session-properties) removing the hook for qshutdown, the file ~/.config/autostart/qshutdown.desktop should have a leading empty line.

If you just delete the file qshutdown creates the file again after the next start, so be sure to remove the hook in the preferences in qshutdown. (I made it like this, so one can set autostart in the qshutdown.config)
You can also delete the qshutdown.desktop and edit the ~/.qshutdown/qshutdown.conf and set the autostart from true to false.

Just in case you copied the /usr/share/qshutdown/autostart/99qshutdown to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/: just delete the file again and that's it (this is a different way for the autostart, so that qshutdown will be started for every user).

I hope this is the solution for you ;-)

Greetings, Hakaishi