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dropbox package

  1. Bug #1546176
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1546176

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marcelo spitteler (mspittel) wrote : Re: Dropbox icon not working on Xubuntu 14.04

Same issue in Linux Mint 17.2 XFCE. When Dropbox daemon is started with 'sudo dropbox start' the icon shows properly and works OK in "Notification Area". When the daemon is started as normal user with 'dropbox start' then icon shows up in "Indicator Plugin" but as a red slashed circle on black background, when clicked shows an empty menu that does nothing. It is a bug in a recent update of Dropbox. Extensive discussion in http://askubuntu.com/questions/732967/dropbox-icon-is-not-working-xubuntu-14-04-lts-64/734886 and the simplest workaround is

Just insert:

os.environ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = ""

into /usr/bin/dropbox

at the beginning, after

import os