How do I prevent Skype from starting automatically on arch linux?

there was point in the settigs "General" folder, but now i can't see it, so how should i prevent this from autostart?I don't use pulseaudio, so i have apulse - pulseaudio emulation tool to use skype without pulseaudio and have modified my skype shortcut to run with itWhen skype autostart - it doesn't use apulse so there is no sound and i have to restart it. thats annoyingAlso i don't use skype to much so i don't need it to autostart even if i had pulseaudioSo, how will i prevent it from autostart?

I know this is an old post but this is a quite common and relevant topic with which I've spent sometime and would like to drop the solution, at least for Fedora 22 under KDE. In order to avoid skype to start at startup/login (which is quite annoying and a privacy invasion) I just deleted the file /etc/prelink.conf.d/skype.conf and that was it.(let's see if this post is up in the skype forum for long ?!)

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