Small issue getting Syncthing to autostart

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Hi I have been experimenting with the setup of Mate 18.04 and with Syncthing. I have two Mate 18.04 installs, a clean one with no alterations and only Syncthing added and another (currently in use) which I have spent some time organising and loading a number of applications. I used Software Boutique to load Syncthing on both drives and then in both drives I went to Control Centre>Personal>Startup Applications and added Synthing to the startup list. I now have the clean 18.04 install auto-starting on boot but I cannot get the other (in use) system to auto-start.
Also, in the clean install (before it was auto-starting) I could start Syncting simply by typing syncthing in the terminal, however the only way I can get Syncthing to run on this system is to start it in the terminal with sudo syncthing Hopefully there are some ideas/suggestions as to why the two Mate 18.04 systems are behaving in such a different manner.

Any suggestions welcome;

Thanks.

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We can only recommend using systemd as that’s the system we support. There are a ton of linux distributions under the sun, and we can’t support all of them,soit’s best if you ask the question on the forums of the distribution in question.

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Instead of downloading through package manager download the binary file.

Put below in /home/USER/.profile

nohup /home/USER/syncthing /dev/null 2>&1&

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