[SOLVED] Problems starting Dropbox automatically

Leonard_Linux · 11-06-2020, 01:53 AM

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?

sgosnell · 11-06-2020, 09:16 AM

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"

Leonard_Linux · 11-06-2020, 11:47 AM

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!

sgosnell · 11-06-2020, 05:17 PM

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

Leonard_Linux · 11-07-2020, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

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. (?)

sgosnell · 11-07-2020, 02:25 PM

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.