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#1 2015-08-14 07:02:43

tekkkz
Member
Registered: 2015-08-07
Posts: 68

KDE5 Plasma Dropbox Systray Icon

Hello!
I'm on Arch Linux with KDE5 Plasma.
I know that there are some difficulties with the system tray, but
    #1 I have read that dropbox uses Qt5 now
    #2 I have 2 machines, one tower with NVidia graphic card and a thinkpad with AMD graphic chip

My problem:
    On my tower I get the dropbox systray icon into my sytem tray at the main panel, but at the thinkpad it doesn't appears.

I can verify that it uses Qt5:

[tekkkz@pc dropbox]$ ls -lh
total 120M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  48K Aug 13 15:50 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31K Aug 13 15:50 Crypto.Cipher._AES.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K Aug 13 15:50 Crypto.Hash._SHA256.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K Aug 13 15:50 Crypto.Util._counter.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Aug 13 15:50 Crypto.Util.strxor.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8M Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtCore.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtDBus.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtGui.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtNetwork.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtPrintSupport.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtQml.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtQuick.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtWebKit.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300K Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.2M Aug 13 15:50 PyQt5.QtWidgets.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  49K Aug 13 15:50 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    5 Aug 13 15:50 VERSION
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13K Aug 13 15:50 _bisect.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Aug 13 15:50 _cffi__x66cf7a7cx17a72769.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Aug 13 15:50 _cffi__xf5cf6433xf9a35663.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_cn.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_hk.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_iso2022.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_jp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_kr.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107K Aug 13 15:50 _codecs_tw.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40K Aug 13 15:50 _collections.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  34K Aug 13 15:50 _csv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130K Aug 13 15:50 _ctypes.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  85K Aug 13 15:50 _curses.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184K Aug 13 15:50 _dbus_bindings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  54K Aug 13 15:50 _elementtree.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K Aug 13 15:50 _functools.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  22K Aug 13 15:50 _heapq.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163K Aug 13 15:50 _io.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41K Aug 13 15:50 _json.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Aug 13 15:50 _librsync.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  20K Aug 13 15:50 _locale.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21K Aug 13 15:50 _lsprof.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  39K Aug 13 15:50 _multibytecodec.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  29K Aug 13 15:50 _multiprocessing.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  20K Aug 13 15:50 _posixsubprocess.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  15K Aug 13 15:50 _random.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  49K Aug 13 15:50 _struct.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  50K Aug 13 15:50 array.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25K Aug 13 15:50 binascii.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  94K Aug 13 15:50 cPickle.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23K Aug 13 15:50 cStringIO.so
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 certifi-14.5.14-py2.7.egg
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 cffi-0.8.6-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103K Aug 13 15:50 datetime.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23K Aug 13 15:50 dbus.mainloop.pyqt5.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  21M Aug 13 15:50 dropbox
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 dropbox_sqlite_ext-0.0-py2.7.egg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  248 Aug 13 15:50 dropboxd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  46K Aug 13 15:50 fastpath.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28K Aug 13 15:50 faulthandler.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  22K Aug 13 15:50 fcntl.so
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Aug 13 15:50 grp.so
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  63K Aug 13 15:50 itertools.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515K Aug 13 15:50 libGL.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.2M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Core.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525K Aug 13 15:50 libQt5DBus.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.8M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Gui.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Network.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 378K Aug 13 15:50 libQt5OpenGL.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411K Aug 13 15:50 libQt5PrintSupport.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Qml.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Quick.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268K Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Sql.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  33M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5WebKit.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275K Aug 13 15:50 libQt5WebKitWidgets.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.7M Aug 13 15:50 libQt5Widgets.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.9K Aug 13 15:50 libX11-xcb.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43K Aug 13 15:50 libdrm.so.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55K Aug 13 15:50 libffi.so.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16M Aug 13 15:50 libicudata.so.42
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7M Aug 13 15:50 libicui18n.so.42
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Aug 13 15:50 libicuuc.so.42
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43K Aug 13 15:50 libpopt.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 Aug 13 15:50 library.zip -> dropbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  59K Aug 13 15:50 librsync.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56K Aug 13 15:50 math.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25K Aug 13 15:50 mmap.so
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 mock-1.0.1-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  46K Aug 13 15:50 operator.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  64K Aug 13 15:50 parser.so
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 psutil-2.2.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256K Aug 13 15:50 pyexpat.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   33 Aug 13 15:50 qt.conf
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 requests-1.2.3-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Aug 13 15:50 resource.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28K Aug 13 15:50 select.so
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 setuptools-12.3-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130K Aug 13 15:50 sip.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31K Aug 13 15:50 strop.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25K Aug 13 15:50 termios.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24K Aug 13 15:50 time.so
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 13 15:50 tornado-4.0.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681K Aug 13 15:50 unicodedata.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  44K Aug 13 15:50 wmctrl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27K Aug 13 15:50 zlib.so

So why could the systray icon be NOT shown on the thinkpad and how to solve this?

I hope you can help me,
Thanks,

Tekkkz (Martin Fischer)

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#2 2015-09-30 03:02:39

shallpion
Member
Registered: 2009-12-12
Posts: 65

Re: KDE5 Plasma Dropbox Systray Icon

Hi, just saw your post. Hopefully you have already solved it, but if you haven't you may want to try

yaourt -S libappindicator-gtk3

as dropbox seems to depend on this gtk3 package for the system tray icon.

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