Remove Skype start up program

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Satellite-Pro-L50-A Memory 15.6 GiB Processor Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8 Graphics Intel® Haswell Mobile Gnome 3.28.2 OS Type 64-bit

Hi I would like to stop Skype from starting up automatically whenever I boot my computer. If Skype does not allow this then I want remove Skype completely

2 Answers

Start Skype. Go to Tools / Settings / General and toggle off "Automatically start Skype".

Run in the terminal:

gnome-session-properties

Then uncheck Skype:

You could also try using terminal remove it from user's autostart directory:

rm ~/.config/autostart/skype*.desktop

or better move it somewhere instead of removing.

But if you follow Organic Marble's answer, skype will do it for you by itself.