the Dropbox indicator doesn't work anymore in Ubuntu 15.10. Tried installing appindicator1 and restarting dropbox, but still no indicator appears. How to get it working?
4 Answers
This one
Worked in Ubuntu 16.04 lts Flashback Compiz
Kill dropbox, and restart it so it shows
dropbox stop && env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
If it works
Go to the settings in dropbox after it starts up and select to not start at startup.
Go to Applications > Preferences > Startup Applications and click on add and
Enter
Name: Dropbox
Command: env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
Comment: Sync your files across computers and to the web
and save
Something which worked for me was
apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
- check that it worked with Unity but not with the environment I'm using (gnome-fallback, it used to work with it before at least with 14.04),
check that it worked under gnome-fallback with
dropbox stop && XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
(gnome-fallback used to have XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity, in 15.10 it has a prefix before Unity).
Create a file
~/scripts/startDropbox
(and ensure it is executable withchmod 755 ~/scripts/startDropbox
)#! /bin/sh set +e if expr "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" : '.*Unity' > /dev/null ; then export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity fi # yes, ! is counter intuitive here if ! dropbox running ; then dropbox stop fi dropbox start -i
Create a
~/.config/autostart/my-dropbox.desktop
(dropbox will overwrite your changes if you try to modify ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop)[Desktop Entry] Name=Dropbox GenericName=File Synchronizer Comment=Sync your files across computers and to the web Exec=/home/AProgrammer/scripts/startDropbox Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=dropbox Categories=Network;FileTransfer; StartupNotify=false
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I'm terribly sorry, but as Ubuntu 15.10 had few another problems, I've installed back version 14.04 Therefore I am not able to try this solution now.– AslanexNov 12, 2015 at 22:19
Try:
sudo apt-get install libappindicator1
Log out, and then log back in and use:
dropbox stop && dropbox start
For what's it worth I solved this problem by running 'dropbox stop' then 'dropbox start'in my list of startup programs in Ubuntu 15.10. I took care, even though it might be unnecessary, to use the STOP option first. The indicator then shows correctly and syncing works.