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CopyAgent (Copy Cloud Storage) won't autostart at system startup (Linux/Xubuntu)

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CopyAgent (the client from Copy Cloud Storage) refuses to autostart at system startup. I use Xubuntu 13.04, and even though CopyAgent .desktop file is in the autostart folder, it simply won't autostart at the beginning of every session. It has to be started manually.

These are the contents of the .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Version=1.0

Type=Application

Terminal=false

StartupNotify=false

GenericName=File Synchronizer

Categories=Network;FileTransfer;

Exec=/home/johnny/copy (install)/x86/CopyAgent

Icon=/home/johnny/.icons/copy-root_folder.png

Name=CopyAgent

Comment=Sync files across computers, mobile devices, and to the web

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

Any ideas? I'm really puzzled with this one...

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answered 3 Years ago dresuitable · Accepted Answer

There are several ways of doing it.

In kubuntu/kde, go to directory ~/.kde4/Autostart (or more likely it is ~/.kde/Autostart) and create a symlink from /path/to/CopyAgent to ~/.kde/Autostart/CopyAgent

I do not know about Xubuntu, but regardless of whatever the desktop environment, this can be achieved too by creating a symlink from /path/to/CopyAgent to /etc/init.d/

This what works for me:

sudo ln -s ~/bin/copy/CopyAgent /etc/init.d/CopyAgent

(you would need to modify this according to where you have your CopyAgent is installed)

After a reboot, CopyAgent is running.

Another way to do this is by editing /etc/rc.d/boot.local and put a /path/to/CopyAgent in there.