[xubuntu-users] DropBox and its Icon

Thu Apr 14 01:51:39 UTC 2016

Hi Folks, thanks, so far..

@David  I checked the Notification service and found it was greyed out, 
so I assume it was was already running?  I also looked it up in 
"Sessions and Startup" in Settings and the Notification was ticked so I 
presume it is initialised.  However I can it hiding down the far right 
hand end of Panel about 1 pixel wide.  I put some stuff in it 
successfully eg CPU speed. But when I restarted the computer the 
red-circle-slash-icon appeared only in the Indicator part of the Panel.

However it would seem I should only need one and not both, so have I got 
my Distro's mixed and installed something that was not 100% designed to 
work on Xubuntu??

@Robert

I changed my ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd script to the below (I have a 
different version it would seem so I only added the second line).

#!/bin/sh
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=""
PAR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
exec "$PAR/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.16.1/dropboxd" "$@"

On a restart the line stayed there, but I can see you suggest erasing 
the session info?  Can I just erase the folder contents at 
/home/rob/.cache/sessions/  ?? and then do a restart??

I don't understand what you are saying after "Update:" below but I feel 
I know why you are suggesting it.  If I have got the Dropbox thing in a 
knot by my previous experiments, they may not untangle unless the 
history is cleared, and force a total clean Dropbox start?

On one reboot I was asked for the "sudo" password to enable access to 
the Dropbox folder.  I thought I had made a break through, but the same 
problem as originally outlined has continued.

Rob

On 13/04/16 21:33, Robert Streeter wrote:
>
> I modified the ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd script as follows and rebooted 
> and got the icon back.  Since this file gets overwritten by updates I 
> think I won't have to undo anything if they fix the problem on the 
> next update.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=""
> PAR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
> exec "$PAR/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.14.7/dropboxd" "$@"
>
> Update: When I tried this on my laptop it didn't work at first. I 
> realized I was having the same problem I had with 'Copy' where the 
> XFCE4 session saving was starting dropbox before the official startup 
> file was executed. I modified my ~/.profile file to erase any *.state 
> and *session* files in ~./cache/sessions. This is the solution that 
> worked for me.
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Rob Ward <rl.ward at bigpond.com 
> <mailto:rl.ward at bigpond.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     After having scouted around on the www for some hints as to how I
>     can get my Dropbox to run properly I have been unable to get it to
>     return to its original installed operation.
>     I am running (X)Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, have found the Dropbox Icon
>     has disappeared and I can no longer use it to inspect the Dropbox
>     folder with the Dropbox options available eg right click and copy
>     a Dropbox share URL.
>
>     At the moment this is the icon that comes and goes as I stop and
>     start Dropbox from the command line  (the red circle with a slash
>     through it).  I am running the Indicator Plugin and it has a
>     couple of functions showing OK (Network, System, Audio all work
>     OK), however there is no Dropbox listed in the "Indicator apps". 
>     Clicking on the red circle icon only makes a little single line
>     shadow under it and nothing else.
>
>     I have completely un-installed Dropbox and then reinstalled, to no
>     avail, and also the same with remove/reinstall Indicator.  I have
>     disconnected this machine from Dropbox via their website on
>     another machine, and then re-linked it again and no improvement.
>
>     I have tried various command line statements eg /dropbox stop/ and
>     then /dropbox start/ as well as /sudo dropbox stop &&
>     DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start/ which did a restart and
>     removed the red circle but did not replace it with the proper Drop
>     box icon. When I ran the Dropbox application from the Applications
>     Menu the red circle icon returned.
>
>     As I am not a high level 'Nix user I have quickly hit a brick
>     wall.  If anyone could help me debug my set up, or offer
>     suggestions as to what I could try, I would be very grateful.
>
>     Rob
>
>     -- 
>
>     *Rob Ward*
>     Lake Tyers Beach, 3909
>     Lake Tyers Beach Website <http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au>
>     XP to XUbuntu <http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au/XP2XU.html>
>
>
>     Command line History:
>
>     /rob at DesktopUbuntu:~$ sudo dropbox stop &&
>     DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start//
>     //sudo: unable to resolve host DesktopUbuntu.WORKGROUP//
>     //[sudo] password for rob: //
>     //Dropbox isn't responding!//
>     //Dropbox isn't responding!//
>     //Dropbox is already running!//
>     //rob at DesktopUbuntu:~$ sudo dropbox stop &&
>     DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start//
>     //sudo: unable to resolve host DesktopUbuntu.WORKGROUP//
>     //Dropbox daemon stopped.//
>     //Starting Dropbox...Dropbox isn't running!//
>     //Done!//
>     //rob at DesktopUbuntu:~$ dropbox startDropbox is already running!//
>     //rob at DesktopUbuntu:~$ //
>     /
>
>
>
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> I've had success running the commands separately -
>
> ~$ dropbox stop
>
> (wait for dropbox to stop, icon should disappear altogether)
>
> ~$ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start
>
> Dave
>
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