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Problems starting Dropbox automatically

Hello,

I put a dropbox.desktop file in my ~/.config/autostart folder. The Exec-command is

Code:

Exec=sh -c "/home/leonard/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"

This actually works when entered in a terminal but when I double-click the .desktop file in Thunar, it says it couldn't find the file.

My operating system is Slackware 14.2 and I compiled Dropbox from source. Here's my full dropbox.desktop file:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Dropbox

GenericName=File Synchronizer

Comment=Sync your files across computers and to the web

Exec="sh -c /home/leonard/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Network;FileTransfer;

Keywords=file;synchronization;sharing;collaboration;cloud;storage;backup;

StartupNotify=false

The permissions are

Code:

ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 leonard users      324 Nov  5 20:11 dropbox.desktop

Could you guys help me with this?

You have the quotation marks in different places in the two examples.

Quote:

Exec=sh -c "/home/leonard/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"
Exec="sh -c /home/leonard/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"

Oh, damn. The last one is the original :-/ Thank you, I somehow oversaw that :^) I just removed the outer quotation marks and now it works perfectly fine!

Little things like that can be easily overlooked. Glad it works. Can you please mark the thread as solved?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell (Post 6182638)

Little things like that can be easily overlooked. Glad it works. Can you please mark the thread as solved?

Hmm, I alread marked it as solved. (?)

Thanks. I don't remember seeing the [Solved] tag yesterday afternoon, but perhaps it hadn't taken effect when I posted, or perhaps I just overlooked it.