BitBudget doesn't start 12.04

[Bernhard Hartl]

Hi,
Hope that I am right here to get help and/or report program failures.

I use ubuntu 12.04 and just installed BitBudget to controll my Mobile Broadband account, and now the program doesn't start. It is in the startup applications, but nothing starts. When I click the icon in the launcher, it blinks and - nothing. Either before or after I log into my ISP, no difference.

When I look in the system monitor, the bitbudget-daemon process is active, but no trace of the indicator-bitbudget-service (have read somewhere that both processes are usually working after bb startup).

Now that I read on and check, I notice that I have no file ~/.config/bitbudget, and in ~/.config/autostart, there is only the bitbudget icon, but no bitbudget.desktop. Maybe I have to install those manually, but where do I get them?

Any ideas??

Thank you
Bernhard, Austria

[Bernhard Hartl (bern-hard)]

Ok, I found the bitbudget.desktop file, it is the icon in the ~/.config/autostart folder. Didn't notice the .desktop ending, oops.

[Bernhard Hartl (bern-hard)]

Hi, I meant I found the bitbudget.desktop file, but the problem is still the same: bitbudget doesn't start, and the ~/.config/bitbudget is not to be found. help please??
Or is there any other download traffic controller, that someone can recommend??
thx
Bernhard

[lazyteq (lazyteq)]

I'm not sure what's causing this. As an alternative you could use vnstat - a command line monitor. It's available in the Software Centre if you search for it.