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256shadesofgrey's avatar
256shadesofgrey
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Disable autostart permanently

I installed dropbox for linux on debian 9 (with cinnamon) from the sid repository (there is none for stretch). Because I run it on a notebook and dropbox tends to drain the battery like crazy when it...
  • gospdomazet's avatar
    gospdomazet
    7 years ago

    Debian:

    Only solution that I have found for this problem is to edit

    ~/config/autostart/dropbox.desktop

    file and change line

    Exec=dropbox start -i

    to

    Exec=dropbox stop

     

    and then comes the most important thing and that is to change ownership and deny access to dropbox.desktop file  so that that file could not be again overriden.

    Not elegant solution.

     

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