Transmission won't start in Startup Applications

[Colin Law]

On 5 May 2012 19:52, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap at arumes.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:02:17 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 5 May 2012 12:09, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap at arumes.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:33:39 +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've added Transmission to my Startup Applications by entering
>>>>
>>>>    transmission-gtk -m
>>>>
>>>> as the executable, with -m to start minimized.
>>>> This command works fine from a terminal, but it refuses to start from
>>>> the Startup Applications list. I also tried entering
>>>>
>>>>    /usr/bin/transmission-gtk -m
>>>>
>>>> but it still won't start when I log in. What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Screenshot of the entry window:
>>>> http://www.arumes.com/temp/Screenshot_SA_Transmission.png
>>>
>>> Not a single response?
>>> Is there absolutely nothing I can do at this point?
>>> Not even logfiles anyone knows that I can check?
>>
>> Instead of running it directly try making a script file that contains
>> the command followed by the command read which will pause until you hit
>> a key.  Run the script from a terminal to make sure it works, then run
>> it as a startup app using the command gnome-terminal
>> --command=/path/to/script then after you login the terminal window
>> should still be there with any errors generated.
>
> That didn't work either. Just like Transmission, the gnome-terminal
> command wouldn't start.
>
> Instead, I completely deleted the entry in the Startup Applications menu,
> and created a new one. Now, it's working. But we'll never find out what
> caused the problem.

Perhaps you somehow had got an unprintable character in the command
and that caused a problem.

Colin