Trouble starting up on login

[LinqLover]

First, thanks for this awesome tool! I have configured onedrive entirely through OneDriveGUI and it works well on Ubuntu 24.04. However, I fail to get autostart right. I simply want that when I login, the sync is started automatically, and the system tray icon is displayed automatically.

What is the recommend way to achieve that?

I tried to add OneDriveGUI to ~/.config/autostart. However, this does not properly manage the onedrive process. If it is not running before, OneDriveGUI starts it properly and shows the sync is starting. But if it is running before, I get an error message (ERROR: The 'onedrive' application is already running), but the GUI does not properly interact with the already running process but just displays the erroneous state. I also noticed that when I log out and log in again, the onedrive process started by OneDriveGUI is still alive. This looks odd to me, and it leads to the above error message because the GUI attempts to start a second instance of onedrive.

I also tried to run onedrive as an independent service instead and not autostart it together with the GUI, but this leads me to the next problem: unlike when started via OneDriveGUI, onedrive --sync --verbose from my terminal fails to authenticate (after clicking the link and granting approval, I am redirected to a page that says "Please retry with a different device or other authentication method to sign in." and pasting the URL to that page in the CLI says "An empty or invalid response uri was entered"). So it seems OneDriveGUI is using a different config, which I do not know how to use on CLI.

So, what's the root issue here and how can I fix it? Would you agree that "Auto-sync on GUI startup" should properly detect and reuse an already existing onedrive process? What is the recommended way to get the autostart working? I would appreciate your support a lot!

[bpozdena]

Sorry for the late response.

The upcoming OneDriveGUI v1.3.0 will show error message indicating the onedrive client sync is already running outside of the GUI. It will be up to you to find it and stop it. The GUI not be able to manege your existing processes or services.

My recommendation is to stop and disable your onedrive client service. Then configure OneDriveGUI to autostart with your desktop environment. Most desktop environments have some kind of a GUI utility where you can easily add OneDriveGUI AppImage.