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  1. Bug #1546176
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 1546176

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Paolo Montrasio (paolo-paolomontrasio) wrote : Re: Dropbox icon not working on Xubuntu 14.04

The workaround that worked on Gnome flashback and the indicator applet is

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity" dropbox start -i

However the first time I tried it I got an empty menu. I wonder if it worked because of some side effect with the other tests I did between the two runs. The dropbox icon is totally black.

In some cases the icon doesn't even show, but the dropbox process is always running in the background.
I got no icon with:

dbus-launch dropbox start
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start

More details:

$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
GNOME-Flashback:Unity

After that successful run of "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity" dropbox start -i" I quit from dropbox using the menu. I run

dropbox start -i # icon with empty menu
dropbox stop
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity" dropbox start -i # icon with colors but empty menu
dropbox stop
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity" dropbox start -i # black icon with menu
dropbox stop
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity" dropbox start -i # black icon with menu

Interestingly I always get this warning

(dropbox:25615): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1:1: Expected a valid selector

So, there could be a workaround but it's a little shaky.