until Skype starts creating a file with a different name.
You're still stuck with this configuration file but with Skype being unable to change it the problem is at least solved. Now when Skype launches it can't update the autostart file or delete it to create a new one. So I took the additional step of making it not writable. The problem is Skype could still go back and set it to true. Skype predictably set X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled to true. sudo gedit ~/.config/autostart/sktop is the fastest way to open this autostart file. When Skype is launched it creates an autostart file.ĭespite my aversion to working in the terminal. You can get to this directory via a terminal if you prefer. If there's anything that can only be done via command line I usually write a small utility to cover it. When I first used Amiga Workbench I vowed to never go to back to command line. I'm not a huge fan of working in terminals. You may have different files here of course. I deleted the Skype autostart file to show how this looks at the beginning. The option that finally worked for me goes like this.įirst off, let's go to the autostart directory and see what's there. Skype randomly changes it back all the time, all. Please, before you email me to say " just thought you should know that Skype has a setting to disable autostart" let me assure you I tried that setting. This is a quick article on one way I found to permanently stop this behavior. On Ubuntu, and I assume other Linux distributions, it registers itself as a startup application at every opportunity.
It's a very needy, insecure application that requires constant attention. It can't accept that someone just might not want to run Skype 24x7. Skype's biggest problem is how it believes it should always be running. I have to use Skype once or twice a year and it's always a bad time. Skype had at least a decade head start on Zoom but it was treated like the program you only use if there are no other options. The word "Zoom" itself became synonymous with video conferencing, like Tupperware or Kleenex. During the pandemic of 2020 Zoom won the video conferencing wars.
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