[SOLVED] Dropbox always autostarting

unnilquadium · 2017-09-08 10:09:49

I've installed dropbox from the AUR along with dropbox-cli.

I would like to prevent dropbox autostarting when I log to xfce, but when I start dropbox manually it always adds itself to the autostart options under "Session and Startup".
I've removed it from that list, removed the autostart option on dropbox itself, used "dropbox-cli autostart n", searched the forums but I still can't find a solution.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Last edited by unnilquadium (2017-09-12 19:12:16)

ewaller · 2017-09-08 16:01:55

Look in :
/etc/xdg/autostart
/.config/autostart/

For dropbox.desktop. If found, there's your problem.

eschwartz · 2017-09-08 16:43:12

Which should work, unless Dropbox is refusing to respect its own option to not keep recreating that file... which the OP implies is happening.

ewaller · 2017-09-08 16:51:20

It has been a while since I have used Xfce4, but I was of the impression that it kept its own list in addition to the global ones.

ooo · 2017-09-08 17:17:56

dropbox also has a systemd service that could be starting it..

unnilquadium · 2017-09-09 07:38:36

The dropbox.desktop file gets created in ~/.config/autostart as soon as I start dropbox.
If I remove dropbox from "Session and Startup autostart" under Xfce4 settings the file disappears, but when I start dropbox again the file gets created once more.

This must be some sort of problem with the application itself, I believe. Or can I try something else?

Thank you once again

EDIT: The dropbox@.service systemd service is disabled btw

Last edited by unnilquadium (2017-09-09 07:39:48)

ooo · 2017-09-09 08:50:03

There's also a systemd user service.

$ systemctl --user status dropbox

to make sure, although it shouldn't create the file in ~/.config/autostart/

I don't have this issue with gnome, so I suppose it's somehow related to xfce4.

As a ugly workaround you could create a empty .desktop file to the autostart directory, and prevent it from being overwritten with chattr +i.

phw · 2017-09-11 08:08:47

Go into dropbox settings and disable "start dropbox on system start". this should prevent dropbox from recreating the autostart .desktop file.

unnilquadium · 2017-09-11 14:08:38

phw wrote:

Go into dropbox settings and disable "start dropbox on system start". this should prevent dropbox from recreating the autostart .desktop file.

That doesn't work. Or going into Application autostart in Xfce settings and disabling it. It's always creating the autostart file... Quite annoying...

I'll try ooo's "ugly" sugestion to create an empty .desktop file and prevent it from being overwritten.

unnilquadium · 2017-09-12 19:16:48

ooo's solution worked!!

I've created an empty dropbox.desktop file and changed its attributes with chattr +i.
That's the only way I could find to prevent the dropbox.desktop file from being created in ~/config/autostart everytime I start dropbox.

I think this is a bug... Is there anyway to report it? (Total noob here)

Thank you!

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#1 2017-09-08 10:09:49

[SOLVED] Dropbox always autostarting

#2 2017-09-08 16:01:55

Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox always autostarting

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