How to prevent MS Teams from adding itself to GNOME session startup programs? [duplicate]
When I boot up my Ubuntu 20.02 laptop, MT (Microsoft Teams) always starts. Since I would like to avoid this, I went to the default program "Startup Applications" and removed the tick for MT.
Though this works for two or three boots, afterwards, I am still stuck with the same problem. Interestingly, the tick for MT in Startup Applications is still there, even though I removed MT from the list.
Help would be appreciated!
Solution 1:
The only method I have found so far to solve the problem is configuring settings in Teams:
- Right click the Teams icon on the system tray
- open Settings
- uncheck Auto-start Application
Note: In some versions, you can right click the system tray icon and disable autostart right there.
The following methods do not work.
- If you disable Teams as a startup application, it will enable itself the next time you open Teams.
- If you restrict the write access to autostart folder only to superusers (so that Teams cannot add itself to startup applications), Teams will refuse to open and show errors.
Solution 2:
Another way is to achieve this is to add the following line into your ~/.profile file :
rm ~/.config/autostart/whatever_the_name_is.desktop
When you login , even before the DE starts the profile file gets executed and removes the .desktop file.So even if the Microsoft teams creates that file each time you open it , after logout and log-back there shouldn't be any problem.
Or even if that doesn't work(i.e the DE starts before the profile gets executed which I don't think to be the case),you can just kill the process via the killall command in ~/.profile.
Solution 3:
After opening teams, click on your profile picture on the top right corner and then settings. Under General uncheck "Auto-start application".
Open teams->click profile image->settings->uncheck Auto-start application