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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...
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.
I took the repository from the dropbox help center, and there is no mention of debian not being officially supported, in fact it explicitely talks about it:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/linux-repository
Sanchez
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffDebian:
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.
- Thank you. This works.
- Sanchez
