Transmission won't start in Startup Applications

Michael Miles Amiga5 at live.com
Sat May 5 20:42:28 UTC 2012



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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 1:30 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Transmission won't start in Startup Applications

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



Glad to see it has worked out...
I have big problems with transmission and Deluge is the bittorrent client of Choice for me with Linux systems

Give it a go. I know you will like it

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