Session: don't autostart Discover's notifier or IBus in the desktop

The nested Plasma session runs the system's XDG autostart entries. Discover's update
notifier (/etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop) started
plasma-discover --mode update inside it, 520-620 MB resident and about 9% of a core,
with flatpak-system-helper and AppStream downloads behind it. IBus started a nested
ibus-daemon with kimpanel and ibus-extension-gtk3, which no app in the desktop can use:
KWin's input method is ft-textinput (zwp_input_method_v1, focus reports only; the VR
keyboard types through ft-screens' seat), and the session already drops QT_IM_MODULE,
GTK_IM_MODULE and XMODIFIERS. Nothing in Frametop talks to IBus.

Before Plasma starts, the session script copies both entries into
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart with Hidden=true, which plasma-session honours for that
desktop only. It does this once ([Defaults] autostart=1 in frametoprc) and skips a name
the user already has a file for, so deleting the copy brings the program back. The
geoclue demo agent stays (it answers apps' location requests outside GNOME and idles at
0%), and orca's entry is OnlyShowIn GNOME-family desktops, so it never ran. Tested
against a temporary XDG_CONFIG_HOME, including an existing user ibus.desktop left alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-03 09:18:31 -06:00
1 parent 5b6cfcd746
commit b7dfe4759e
3 files changed
+21

No files matched your search

+17
View File
@@ -251,6 +251,23 @@ if [ "$(kreadconfig6 --file "$frametoprc" --group Defaults --key effects)" != 1
kwriteconfig6 --file "$frametoprc" --group Defaults --key effects 1
fi
# System autostart entries this desktop doesn't need, hidden for it alone by a copy with
# Hidden=true in its own autostart folder, once and unless there's a file of that name
# already. Discover's update notifier starts Discover itself to check for updates (about
# 600 MB and a share of a core, with Flatpak's helper and AppStream behind it); updates
# come with SteamOS and from Discover in the stock desktop. IBus can't reach the
# desktop's apps: KWin's input method is ft-textinput, and the session drops the
# variables that point apps at IBus or XIM. Deleting the copy brings an entry back.
if [ "$(kreadconfig6 --file "$frametoprc" --group Defaults --key autostart)" != 1 ]; then
for entry in org.kde.discover.notifier ibus; do
src=/etc/xdg/autostart/$entry.desktop dst=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart/$entry.desktop
[ -r "$src" ] && [ ! -e "$dst" ] || continue
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$dst")"
sed '/^\[Desktop Entry\]$/a Hidden=true' "$src" > "$dst"
done
kwriteconfig6 --file "$frametoprc" --group Defaults --key autostart 1
fi
# Profiles reopen apps (docs/profiles.md), so Plasma's own session restore stays off here;
# with both, apps would open twice.
kwriteconfig6 --file "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ksmserverrc" --group General --key loginMode emptySession