[tshann]

Duma, on 20 October 2011 - 09:27 PM, said:

In my personal opinion, your solution is much elegant than create a .desktop file (it goes in "Launcher list" for everything or in a menu). It's only not editable with Settings -> Applications -> Startup Applications.
If it works, I think you could feel solved your problem, but IMHO, of course

Hi Duma,
Thanks. Yup it's working fine. Just curious as to why the .desktop file isn't working. But yep, working fine.

Thanks again for your help Duma (great movie (Duma) by the way - if you've not seen it).

Peace

[ylee]

tshann, on 20 October 2011 - 08:38 PM, said:

Hi,
I've done what it says on the wiki. However no dropbox comes up upon rebooting. So then I went to the Dropbox.desktop file and double clicked it. I get this error: Failed to execute child process "(sleep"(no such file or directory). Then I click the Okay button. I copied and pasted the exact text from the wiki. So what am I doing wrong here folks?

Peace

tshann, on 20 October 2011 - 09:39 PM, said:

Just curious as to why the .desktop file isn't working. But yep, working fine.

I think copying and pasting from that wiki people are ending up with windows style line endings and not unix style. I have no idea why this started occurring, it didn't used to when I wrote that wiki. I am not positive of this theory tho but I do know windows style line endings will give you the very misleading error message: No such file or directory. It is a problem I have banged my head against before copying and pasting from web sites. I think this was also related to the issue aeonius was having, we ended up replacing his desktop file with one that looked exactly like it and it worked.

When I have time I will take a closer look at it and see if we can fix whatever is causing this issue ... meaning this issue goes onto my todo list

[Duma]

ylee could catch the point: maybe coping / pasting could make wrong character