no dropbox icon in wingpanel

[DJ]

Dropbox is installed and working, but there is no icon on the panel.

[Gabriel_P (gabp)]

Quite a number of people seem to be experiencing this bug.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2/posts/53nDogpP518

I'm using Super Wingpanel and have the same issue.

[DJ (zinkenist)]

Installed Feya a few days ago. Still no dropbox icon. Even not with a workaround that previously worked in Luna for some time.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Wingpanel automatically picks up all available indicators. If an indicator is not showing up that would be a problem with the indicator itself and cannot be addressed from wingpanel.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

You may want to try the following:

$ cd
$ scratch-text-editor .xsessionrc

Add the line:

export DROPBOX_USE_LIBAPPINDICATOR=1

Source (in Spanish): http://entornosgnulinux.com/2014/08/24/indicador-de-dropbox-en-elementary-os-solucionado/

[DJ (zinkenist)]

I have done this long before, but the fix does not work.

There are a lot of people affected by this bug. Dropbox works fine in Ubuntu and Mint, so why not in Elementary OS? It is disappointing to see it is marked as invalid again. This bug was reported in Elementary OS Luna before and got the same status.

[Heart (h-trader)]

Above workaround worked here for a few months in luna but now it also doesn't work anymore :(