On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:18:00 +0100 James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:05 +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote: > > > On my ubuntu box at home there are three users wife ,mine and the > > kids. > > I instaled a programm called Dropbox www.getdropbox.com/ and it > > pops up for me to enter user name and pass word etc and was happy > > with it. > > how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and > > they have no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up. > > How do i disable it? > > Hi, > > I'm just guessing here, but it probably installs an autostart session > entry. > > If you go to System->Preferences->Session, is it listed in "Startup > programs"? > > If so, then you can disable it on each account where you don't want > it. > > If you want to disable it by default then you need to find > the .desktop file, it may be in /etc/xdg/autostart, where you can > edit to add > > X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false > > to the end. I don't know how to do this for other DEs. > > You could also talk to the dropbox people about having a better system > in place to handle this. > > Thanks, > > James > > I tried the session options but it does not turn up there unfortunately, I think dropbox are planning to add more advanced options soon although it is still in beta. -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
