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MalteseFalcon

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 19

Dropbox Integration (icons) in PCManFM

Hi all,

Moved from Ubuntu (after 10 years) to Archlinux this week.  So far so good.

Is it possible to get Dropbox integration, (i.e. the icons, which show if a directory is "syncing" etc.) in PCManFM, please?  I couldn't find anything related in the excellent wiki, but perhaps I missed it (there is for thunar, dolphin, caja, nemo etc, but not for this).

Many thanks,
JP

linuxford

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Registered: 2013-09-09

Posts: 4

Re: Dropbox Integration (icons) in PCManFM

Support for dropbox is through AUR, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox
Addtionally, see the package details https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox

I was able to get it working. Note that you will need to install git and also pacman-contrib.
Also see the pinned comment from 'yan12125' if you get errors during the makepkg command which say "Verifying source file signatures with gpg..."

You should check out the documentation, but here is the rough steps I took after reading the ArchLinux docs mentioned above.
1. login as normal user
2.  git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/dropbox.git
3. cd dropbox
4. ./update.sh
5. gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E
6. makepkg
7. tar -I zstd -xvf dropbox-xxxxx.pkg.tar.zst

From there, there should be a ~/dropbox/opt/dropbox/dropbox binary that you can run to start drop box.
Check the Archlinux documentation for all the details above, as they may vary for you. Also, will be more info on how to start dropbox on automatically.

Last edited by linuxford (2021-04-03 02:37:11)

MalteseFalcon

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 19

Re: Dropbox Integration (icons) in PCManFM

Getting dropbox to work on ArchLinux is not the problem, but thanks for the time you took to write this.  Dropbox is installed and works fine.

What I want is dropbox integration with PCManFM, i.e. that the dropbox folder there shows up with the syncing etc. icons in the file manager.  This is not in the wiki (AFAICT).

MalteseFalcon

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Re: Dropbox Integration (icons) in PCManFM

Any help, please?  Just bumping this up.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Dropbox Integration (icons) in PCManFM

Any help, please?  Just bumping this up.

Please don't do that.