Dropbox, Plasma and system tray icon

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-17 10:31:37

Hello,

Sorry for the repeated topic. I`ve seen other discussions here on this, but I've tried all the solutions I've encountered and I did not get anything.
I just did a fresh Arch installation and installed dropbox from AUR.

Dropbox starts and lets me login and setup my account normally. I can see dropbox is running and my folders are being synced. I don' t see any messages when I run dropbox from the command line.

[leandroaveiro@leandroaveiro ~]$ ps -ef | grep dropbox
leandro+  5828  5821 74 07:59 pts/1    00:13:08 dropbox
leandro+  6151  5821  0 08:17 pts/1    00:00:00 grep dropbox

I don't have the system tray icon. Unlike some cases where people are seeing the placeholder for the Dropbox icon on the tray, but not the icon itself, I don't get anything.

I've tried installing libappindicator-gtk3 as sugested by this post and also suggested accross other discussions forums on the web. Did not work.

Then I tried following this guide which suggests installing xembedsniproxy, which is already included in plasma now:

[leandroaveiro@leandroaveiro ~]$ ps -ef | grep xembed
leandro+   589   506  0 00:57 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/xembedsniproxy
leandro+  8188  5821  0 08:26 pts/1    00:00:00 grep xembed

.

Still, I don't have the icon.

Then, as a last resort, I've installed wmsystemtray, which is a solution that has worked for me in the past. It shows a window with tray icons still relaying on XEmbed. But this time, this is what I get:

[leandroaveiro@leandroaveiro ~]$ wmsystemtray 
wmsystemtray: Another application is already running as the freedesktop.org protocol system tray
wmsystemtray: Could not initialize the freedesktop.org tray protocol

.

Really hard to use Dropbox this way.
Anyone has any other suggestions? I' d really appreciate it.

Thank you,
Leandro

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-17 10:53:01

Interesting. I have just followed these same steps again, and after installing libappindicator-gtk3, I rebooted and saw the dropbox icon on the tray, but it soon disappeared and I couldn' t get it back since.

Scimmia · 2016-02-17 14:15:30

Did you read the dropbox page in the Arch Wiki?

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-18 01:27:55

Yes. And there is no instruction there on how to make the systemt tray icon appear.
It does say actually, that it's suposed to appear right after application launch:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dropbox
"...1. After installing the package, you can start Dropbox from your application menu or run dropbox from the command-line. The client icon will appear in the system tray."

eschwartz · 2016-02-18 03:19:37

So, why not run the command-line version which has a "status" subcommand?

I assume that is what @Scimmia was referring to.

Scimmia · 2016-02-18 03:24:08

Looking at the wiki page, the part I was thinking of is specific to starting it with systemd. How are you starting dropbox?

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-18 10:23:35

I'm sure the command line version will give me the information I need, but I'd still would like to get the 'standard' version running. I'll switch to the command line if there is no way out.
I'm simply starting it by the Plasma menu or by running 'drobox &' at command line.

I'm not using systemd, mainly because of the following, also extracted from the Arch Wiki Dropbox page:

"...Starting with your WM/DE
For KDE users, no further steps are required, as KDE saves running applications when logging out and restarts them automatically. Similarly for Xfce users, dropbox will be restarted automatically next time you login since the dropbox.desktop file has been placed in ~/.config/autostart."

Thanks.

childerico · 2016-02-18 17:09:38

I am experiencing the same issue.
Dropbox tray icon sometimes is visible with a strange pink background (with breeze-dark desktop theme), sometimes it leaves just an empty space on my panel and sometimes it is not visible at all.

I don't use systemd to start Dropbox. I installed "libappindicator-gtk3" and also checked that "xembedsniproxy" is running.

midixinga · 2016-02-20 13:40:42

yes, it's broken again, even with a new user; I tried to downgrade some kde-packages: no luck :-(

Edit:
weird, it reappears, when I logoff/logon

Last edited by midixinga (2016-02-20 14:35:38)

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-22 11:58:02

I'm giving up... Does anyone know how to cleanly migrate from regular dropbox to command line dropbox? I really don't want to download my entire synced folders again.

ronw · 2016-02-22 14:50:25

leandroaveiro wrote:

I'm giving up... Does anyone know how to cleanly migrate from regular dropbox to command line dropbox? I really don't want to download my entire synced folders again.

Previous posters are probably referring to dropbox-cli available in the AUR or the Dropbox site. No conversion or reinstall required.

The icon is in my system tray at the moment. No idea how long it will stay there.

eschwartz · 2016-02-22 15:09:14

leandroaveiro wrote:

I'm giving up... Does anyone know how to cleanly migrate from regular dropbox to command line dropbox? I really don't want to download my entire synced folders again.

There is no difference. It is the same executable.

As ronw indicated, the dropbox-cli package allows you to start/stop/communicate with/get statuses from the main dropbox executable independent of the systray icon.

Last edited by eschwartz (2016-02-22 15:09:58)

firewalker · 2016-02-22 15:56:11

Same here. No tray icon. Tried everything suggested...

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-22 19:49:59

I have just installed dropbox-cli package from AUR. Very good. All the regular user interface commands and notifications are there.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Last edited by leandroaveiro (2016-02-22 19:50:48)

midixinga · 2016-02-23 09:08:31

my systray icon is back with the new dropbox version 3.14.7

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-23 12:10:31

Mine isn't, but I'm happy with the command line client.

FenDanT · 2016-02-23 13:17:51

No icon for me too... Even with the 3.14.7... Really boring... Tried everything suggested, with no luck at all...
I didn't have any choice, i have to use it for my job...
Why is it working like a charm under a lot of other distos ? Only Arch can't fix those problems with Dropbox and KDE5 ?
A lot of monthes with this problem, without any news... So sad...

firewalker · 2016-02-23 16:59:16

It's not KDE5 specific. No icon with KDE4.

leandroaveiro · 2016-02-25 12:58:05

My dropbox systray icon appeared, with the pink background, and I had uninstalled libappindicator-gtk3, and I haven't done a system update either. So I'm pretty sure it's not related.
But of course, after rebooting, the icon is gone again....

Xirtam85 · 2016-03-22 09:08:11

Is there any update/workaround on this?
(It is really annoying not to be able to properly use Dropbox with a current Plasma desktop.)

leandroaveiro · 2016-03-22 10:22:36

The best solution so far for me is to use the command client from AUR. Works like a charm, but you have to go on a terminal and issue 'dropbox-cli status' everytime you want to see what your dropbox is up to.

a2r · 2016-05-13 16:12:49

I have seen many posts where people say that restarting the client (via command line) brings the icon back.
So some have a script like

dropbox stop
dbus-launch dropbox start -i

I can confirm that this helps, but the annoying thing is that this behavior exists since Febuary 2015 ....

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Dropbox, Plasma and system tray icon

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