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piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Dropbox does not work anymore in KDE

Hello!

Arch is fully updated here, dropbox is installed (and this worked flawlessly before), also
"sni-qt" and all "libindicators" are installed.

Dolphin shows in >preferences >services that there is a dropbox service to show in the context menu but though checked the "Dropbox" service it does not show in my context menues.

Also there is no symbol in the panel tray. "kde-servicemenues-dropbox" is also installed.

When searching I find a lot of info that seems to inaccurate or outdated. This is on a fully updated Arch installation of KDE (plasma 5.4, kde 15.08.2)

Dropbox including Dolphin integration and tray icon works on a new user account. So this is a case of cleanup old configurations somehow. But I do not have any idea how to do that. I understand that many (but not all? configuration files for KDE have been moved, but I do not know which ones to safely delete  and I cannot find any documentation on that...)

thx, any ideas?

btw: starting dropbox from commandline does not give me any errors and dropbox seems to be running as process (though I have no idea where to find the configuration files...

Last edited by piedro (2015-10-21 18:26:02)

piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Re: Dropbox does not work anymore in KDE

As it turns out I could start it for one session with the hint from the Arch Dropbox Wiki:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
dropbox

from the commandline.

I had to delete the folder .dropbox before and now the GUI would start to ask me to configure Dropbox.
After that it ran fine for that session (including tray and dolphin links!)

Sadly after logging out and relogin in KDE dropbox stopped working again.
Also I could not change ".config/autostart/dropbox.desktop" in any way... even the GUI (KCM in systemsettings) for start/shutdown would not change the file in any way, changing the settings of the start applications would result in no changes....

Also I tried again to start from the commandline - the method described above will not work anymore.

How is KDE messing up the session start?

What is wrong here?

plz, anyone?

thx, p.

Last edited by piedro (2015-10-21 21:19:02)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Dropbox does not work anymore in KDE

Please do not cross post.  You have another thread on this issue alread.  I'll leave that one as it has a reply.

Closed.  Binned.

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