
I'm using the Gnome Shell, so I can just go to Applications ➜ System Tools ➜ Startup Applications or run gnome-session-properties on terminal and fill in the text boxes: Name: NameOfYourCustomLauncherĪnd that's it! After a restart it worked just fine. Paste in the following code using your own settings for the Name and the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay Ĭomment=Sync your files across computers and to the webĪll that is left is for you to create a new startup launcher: Whatever you want to call it, just don't call it sktop Untick the box to start on system startup (see first pick on Onalemon's answer)Ĭreate a file that will be your custom application launcher in ~/.config/autostart/.


The next double click will actually open the dropbox folder. So here are the steps you can take if you find yourself in a similar situation: The main difference you’ll notice is that when you open it from the desktop you’ll have to double-click it twice the first time nothing will apparently happen, but the program will have started and will be checking to see what has changed. I found myself having the same problem recently and the way I fixed it is a mixture of the two answers, the reason being that Dropbox would rewrite the launcher sktop entry in ~/.config/autostart/ whether I had it ticked to start on startup or not.
