General Information

Disabling some auto-start programs and pop ups during a GNOME 3 login session.

Checklist

• Distro(s): Enterprise Linux 7
• Other: GNOME 3 desktop

• Disable Welcome screen

  echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-welcome-tour.desktop

There are some auto start programs that cause authentication pop ups when logging into a GNOME session.

• Authentication is required to set the network proxy used for downloading software. Fix by:

  echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop

• Authentication is required to create a color managed device. Fix by:

  echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop