11.10 - how can I get the UbuntuOne panel icon starting in the background via my .bashrc

Trying to get an indicator working to show UbuntuOne progress, like the Dropbox one.

This helped: Is there any way to get an indicator for Ubuntu One?
Also this http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/ubuntu-one-indicator-applet.html actually gave me the command to run -

/usr/bin/ubuntuone-indicator

However this ties up the terminal so I want to run it in the background and ideally have it in my .bashrc to start on startup.

However when I try /usr/bin/ubuntuone-indicator & the indicator comes up... but the terminal is tied up and doesn't return the command prompt.

I can interrupt it (ctrl-c) and the indicator actually stays, so it seems like the job was actually in the background. Stopping it at this point requires a kill command.

So how can i get this working in the background ok so that I can add it to my .bashrc shell?

At the command line:

If I try /usr/bin/ubuntuone-indicator it starts, but the terminal is hung and indicator gets killed with a ctrl-c

If I try /usr/bin/ubuntuone-indicator & it starts the icon indicator but still hangs the terminal. If I ctrl-c, that works (exits) and the process is left in the background (requires kill to stop it). This is good... except that I can't "ctrl-c" for the .bashrc script.

Try starting the application with nohup

nohup /usr/bin/ubuntuone-indicator &

You should now be able to close the terminal.

Assuming that works, IMO, you want to add that command do a script which then runs at login rather then adding it to .bashrc

Add your script or command to Startup applications