[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#1095002: nextcloud-desktop: Nextcloud starts twice (with two tray-icons)

[Hefee]

Hi,

that is strange. Maybe gnome uses systemd to handle autostarts these days and 
now two systems are try to handle autostarts?
But I don't have used Gnome for several years...

But anyways provide your findings at the upstream issue:
https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/4661

Regards,

hefee

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> I thought the problem was fixed, as I had no longer 2 files for aut-starting
> nextcloud: $ ack -i nextcloud ~/.config/autostart/
> /home/olivier/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop
> 2:Name=Nextcloud
> 4:Exec="/usr/bin/nextcloud" --background
> 6:Icon=Nextcloud
> 
> But suddenyly this morning after restarting and logging in again, I get 2
> instances of nextcloud running again.
> 
> $ ps aux | grep -i nextcloud
> olivier     3516  0.1  1.3 2574532 215448 ?      SLl  10:56   0:01
> /usr/bin/nextcloud --background olivier     3874  0.1  1.3 2574488 215876 ?
>      SLl  10:56   0:01 /usr/bin/nextcloud --background olivier     6801 
> 0.0  0.0   6624  2480 pts/1    S+   11:16   0:00 grep -i nextcloud
> 
> Here's the relevant pieces of pstree for the 2 nextcloud process
> systemd-+
> 
>         |-systemd-+-(sd-pam)
>         |
>         |         |-gnome-session-b-
>         |         |
>         |         |                 |-nextcloud---16*[{nextcloud}]
>         |         |                 
>         |         |                 `-4*[{gnome-session-b}]
>         |         |
>         |         |-nextcloud---16*[{nextcloud}]
> 
> So, I'm puzzled. There's another instance of something that starts it, but
> not related to my /home/olivier/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop
> apparently.
> 
> I dunno what would be special about that gnome session (stable).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Le Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 11:03:05AM +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> > Le Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:30:24AM +0100, Ralf Jung a écrit :
> > > I found the upstream bug for this, referenced above. Deleting the
> > > `com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud.desktop` file in the `autostart`
> > > folder seems to help, though it may well be that nextcloud will
> > > re-create
> > > that file at some point...
> > 
> > Thanks for these details.
> > 
> > I checked stopping Nextcloud desktop, removed both files in
> > ~/.config/autostart/, then started Nextcloud and then I used the checkbox
> > in the parameters to disable autostart, and reenabling the parameter,
> > checking that only the ~/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop is deleted /
> > re-generated.
> > 
> > So it seems that stopping all instances and removing
> > ~/.config/autostart/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud.desktop is
> > probably the best workaround, Debian-wise.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,


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