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Markus.N2

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-08-22

Posts: 103

[SOLVED] Can I prevent Dropbox from activating its own autostart ?

Hi,

I am using Dropbox only     occasionally. And because it slows down XFCE start by causing very much Disk I/O, I have deactivated Dropbox in
Settings -> Session and startup -> Application Autostart.

But when I start Dropbox manually, it re-activates its own autostart and I have to deactivate it again.
This is probably a "feature" to help people not to forget it. But in my case, the feature is an annoyance.
Does anyone know a trick to prevet it ?

Thanks and Regards,
Markus

Last edited by Markus.N2 (2014-03-26 20:56:45)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,307

Re: [SOLVED] Can I prevent Dropbox from activating its own autostart ?

Start dropbox, open the dropbox settings and disable the autostart option. Then check the XFCE autostart settings and disable it there too, if necessary.
If that doesn't work, try to edit ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop manually and add "Hidden=true"
(See here if you want to know what this does: http://standards.freedesktop.org/autost … #id2695932 )

Last edited by progandy (2014-03-26 20:43:41)

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Markus.N2

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2013-08-22

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED] Can I prevent Dropbox from activating its own autostart ?

Oh, I overlooked the "autostart" option in the Dropbox settings.
Unchecking this has automatically removed the dropbox entry in
Settings -> Session and startup -> Application Autostart

Thanks