How do I prevent Dropbox from being automatically added to the autostart list after launching it?

Question

Everytime I start Dropbox (in Precise) it gets added to the autostart list even if I deleted the entry before. I don't want Dropbox to be started when I log in only when I want it to. How to prevent Dropbox to be automatically added to the autostart list?

Solution 1

Click on the icon, preferences, then uncheck the box "Start Dropbox on system startup".

Solution 2

Command-line option might also work:

$ dropbox autostart n

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From:

$ man dropbox

Solution 3

By default, dropbox will start automatically at login. The update-rc.d command is not concerned here. (/etc/rc*.d/directories don't contain dropbox). There is no service "dropbox" (/etc/init.d don't contain dropbox)

If you have installed dropbox with ".deb" package (sudo dpkg -i dropbox.deb), then you may have the executable /usr/bin/dropbox

To disable the dropbox auto-start :

/usr/bin/dropbox autostart n

To enable the dropbox auto-start :

/usr/bin/dropbox autostart y

Comments

[Wesley Baugh]

Oh my goodness, I totally overlooked this, after doing a fresh installation of Precise. Haha, thanks.

[aalaap]

This doesn't work with 17.10 and maybe even other recent versions.

[deFreitas]

It fix the problem but if I start dropbox manually then it activate start on next reboot

[Jim Balter]

That doesn't work because some very evil and/or stupid people work at Dropbox. The checkbox is ignored; you have to use dropbox autostart [ny]

[Jurosh]

Tried everything, even dropbox autostart n not helped.. It's really ugly from Dropbox to make such mess :( only sudo apt remove dropboxfinally helped.. :/