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exadrid

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From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-27

Posts: 29

Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

Is there any way of changing the background colour of the new dropbox icon in tray?

Here is what it looks like :

Am I stuck waiting for dropbox to change it again^

youngdm

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Registered: 2013-08-02

Posts: 20

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

I'm using Xfce4 too. I've only seen the dropbox icon once following a recent reboot (I'm using a laptop). The rest of the time it hasn't displayed but dropbox is working. I have the same problem at work on Centos 6. I guess as you suggest we'll have to wait untli the next update..... ho hum.

kalsan

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 119

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

For the last few days, I was unable to see the Dropbox icon at all, and now it displays just fine. I'm using XFCE as well and I don't have your bug.
Is it possible that the bug has to do with a theme or GTK?

nashamri

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 30

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

I'm having the same issue. Running openbox with tint2.

youngdm

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Registered: 2013-08-02

Posts: 20

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

Ok, it seems my issue  is related to the compositing. If I turn on Compton or the native Xfce compositor, the icon disappears.

nashamri

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 30

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

Turning on compositing does solve the problem, but I don't like compositing
I read in the aur comments something about the icons being 16 bit per channel so I tried to convert the icons in:

/opt/dropbox/images/hicolor/16x16/status/

to 8 bit from 16 bit (had to install gimp-git for that) but it still didn't remove the white borders around the icons when compositing is off.

youngdm

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Registered: 2013-08-02

Posts: 20

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

Turning off the compositing solves the problem for me. Also, if I stop dropbox (using dropbox-cli) and then start it, the icon appears and functions correctly. Hmm.

nashamri

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 30

Re: Dropbox 3.0.3 icon wrong colour in XFCE.

For me the icon never disappears with compositing on or off. My issue is the white background of the icon. When I turn compositing on (compton) and restart dropbox, the white background is gone and the icon looks nice.

I'm using tint2 from svn (tint2-svn, in the AUR).