Stop Ubuntuone from autostart

Question

I want to stop ubuntuone from autostart.

I have already tried the suggestions from this answer but it didn't help me. My current status is that I have deleted the ubuntuone-launch.desktop file from /etc/xdg/autostart but the service still start's at log-in.

Any suggestions before purging it?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '12 at 18:26

3

Install Boot Up Manager

sudo apt-get install bum

and disable the service from Boot Up Manager.

answered Aug 16 '12 at 18:26

Steiger

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '13 at 09:08

Ubuntu One starts automatically while there is a folder called "Ubuntu One" in your $HOME, thus delete that folder if you want to prevent Ubuntu One from autostart.

Then if you want, you can also restore the factory settings by deleting the following hidden folders from your $HOME

.local/share/ubuntuone/
.config/ubuntuone/

Please note that you don't have to delete /etc/xdg/autostart/ubuntuone-launch.desktop file, in fact if you do so you might be into trouble when you want to use Ubuntu One again, however you can rebuilt it with:

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/ubuntuone-launch.desktop

by pasting the following and saving changes:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Ubuntu One
Exec=/bin/sh -c '[ -d "$HOME/Ubuntu One" ] && ubuntuone-launch'
Type=Application
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=30
Icon=ubuntuone
Comment= 
NoDisplay=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=ubuntuone-client

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 19:49

1

Maybe you include a simple script in your custom start up applications:

#!/bin/sh
u1sdtool -q

And the daemon should quit as soon as you log in.

answered Jul 06 '12 at 19:49

Alexandre

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 25 '13 at 17:19

1

Try to open the Ubuntu One dashboard, go under "Settings" tab and uncheck the "Connect automatically when computer starts". This way you can simply enable it after boot manually.

Hope it helps

edited Jul 25 '13 at 17:19

Zignd

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answered Aug 16 '12 at 18:23

Omegafil

266

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 19:40

0

I simply uninstalled UbuntuOne... Easy peasey.

answered Jul 06 '12 at 19:40

Patrick Burwell

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1

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 06 '12 at 20:18

0

Type in terminal

cd /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo sed --in-place 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' *.desktop

Reboot , select the Startup applications from the Top right Corner Menu, there in list you will see Ubuntu One as option , Just Un-Check it to disable it Auto-restarting from next time.

edited Jul 06 '12 at 20:18

Eliah Kagan

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answered Jul 06 '12 at 19:57

atenz

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Stop Ubuntuone from autostart

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