Dropbox icon does not display correctly in some of the notification areas.

[Chris Were]

When using the "Indicator Applet Complete" Dropbox is not loaded in correctly. It shows a "filler" icon with no access to the menu. This command fixes the problem, but has to be run at startup every time

dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start

Additionally, using the "notification area" as part of a custom desktop layout has caused an issue. After a system restart it doesn't display any icons, unless it's used as part of the Traditional desktop layout in the Tweak tool.

[Chris Were (chriswere)]

One thing I should add in regards to Dropbox is that I had to install dropbox-nautilus rather than dropbox-caja. Dropbox-caja could not install and run properly. I apologise that I can't remember the specific error but I do know that installing dropbox-nautilus instead fixed it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package caja-dropbox - 1.20.0-1ubuntu0

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caja-dropbox (1.20.0-1ubuntu0) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches:
    + Drop 2003_execute_via_dbus_launch.patch. It doesn't work as intended.
    + Add 2003_fake_xdg_current_desktop.patch. Coerce XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to
      ensure indicator icons and menus work. (LP: #1559249, #1729482)

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:36:26 +0000

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Dear Martin!

Could you please clarify which bug you fixed:

1. `caja-dropbox autostart y` (see description and steps to reproduce -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604439 )?

or

2. empty menu drop-down dropbox menu (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1751451 )?

Currently there is no fix for Xenial and Artful, right?

I tested new package version 1.20.0-1ubuntu0 on clean user profile on Bionic:
 caja-dropbox still does not autostart on MATE DE. But drop-down menu is shown.

[Janek37 (j-sz)]

I still have this problem with caja-dropbox on Ubuntu Mate 18.04. Looks like this: https://ubuntu-mate.community/uploads/default/original/2X/4/47ecbbd4637f801e352a7b636208fcc399b0aeec.png

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Reappeared as bug 1940766 .

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Running

sudo apt-get install libappindicator1

and reboot will fix the issue.