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This applies to a 16.04 Lubuntu system.

There's this related question How to prevent deja-dup-monitor from running, or completely delete it? but that user didn't use deja-dup and just wanted to kill it. Also something about a weird interaction with Google Chrome, also not my issue.

I use deja-dup but only on demand. I don't need its daemon running to kick off automatic backups.

I've killed the daemon and tested backups and restores with it dead and they work fine.

I tried sudo systemctl stop deja-dup-monitor

but I get

Failed to stop deja-dup-monitor.service: Unit deja-dup-monitor.service not loaded.

though it shows up in Task Manager

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Also sudo systemctl disable deja-dup-monitor results in

Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

How can I prevent deja-dup-monitor from starting?

Organic Marble
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According to dpkg -S deja-dup-monitor (or package search) its XDG desktop-autostart file is located in /etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop .

So you can disable deja-dup-monitor autostart by removing this file:

sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop

As @OrganicMarble commented user-oriented solution is to launch lxsession-edit and uncheck Backup Monitor. This will create XDG-user file ~/.config/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop with contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=deja-dup
Name=Backup Monitor
Comment=Schedules backups at regular intervals
Icon=deja-dup
TryExec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=120
StartupNotify=false
NoDisplay=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Archiving;
NotShowIn=LXDE;

The main and significant difference between this file and original /etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop is NotShowIn=LXDE; (it means that deja-dup-monitor will not start on LXDE session).

N0rbert
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