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auto login on Kubuntu 9.10

Hi
I've just installed Kubuntu 9.10. (not Ubuntu - but EE do not have a section for Kubuntu)  I have enabled auto-login - and it does, but I get the attached message every time it boots
How do i fix this?

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This comes about because you were running an app in superuser mode when you logged out.  KDE apps running at logout time are saved in the "session", and it will try to restore them when you log back in, but anything running as root, via kdesudo, is not restorable.

Obviously, the correct thing from a KDE viewpoint would be to simply not save these apps in the session, but I imagine the developers consider it a trivial problem, as they would tell you you shouldn't be running a single app as root over multiple logins (it's a security issue).
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Hi

So your saying the error has nothing to do with the autologin I configured, but an app that was open at the time I set this up?

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That can be for another question - thanks.