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by maccabbi · August 26, 2014
In recent updates the Dropbox indicator has quit working. Dropbox still works fine, and you can check the status from terminal. It’s just not as convenient as using the indicator, so a lot of elementary users are asking how to get the indicator back. Most advice I’ve seen on the net says to either downgrade Dropbox or wait. The next update is a big one with a new QT based interface and a fix for the missing indicator, but waiting sucks. The guys over on entornsgnulinux didn’t want to wait or downgrade, so they figured out how to make it work now. Unfortunately, the instructions aren’t in English, so here’s a quick translation.
Open up Files and go to your home folder.
Right click and choose show hidden files.
Look for a file named .xsessionrc
If you have it the open it in Scratch.
If you don’t have it then right click and choose create new file > empty file, and name it .xsessionrc then open it in Scratch
Paste in
export DROPBOX_USE_LIBAPPINDICATOR=1
Close .xsessionrc
Open the terminal and run the following commands one at a time.
Don’t worry if it fails to remove something that didn’t exists. There are a couple of ways you could have installed Dropbox and I included commands to address the most common install locations. Once you run the last command Dropbox will reinstall the indicator. It’s not affecting any of the content in your Dropbox. Just let it finish then log out. When you log back in you should see the indicator.
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Hi I'm Michael, a long time Linux user and enthusiast. I particularly like putting Linux in odd places like an unraid system built into a life-sized replica Dalek or a Linux based HTPC built into a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. When not on a computer I'm an avid reader, writer and consumer of Guinness.
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nettlebay says: April 20, 2015 at 5:21 pm If it doesn’t work, I have another working solution here: http://forum.elementaryos-fr.org/topic/1308-dropbox-existe-sur-freya-je-lai-rencontr%C3%A9/ but my tutorial is in French. Sorry. There is also this one in English but I have not tried: https://github.com/nathandyer/elementary-dropbox-mods Log in to Reply
If it doesn’t work, I have another working solution here: http://forum.elementaryos-fr.org/topic/1308-dropbox-existe-sur-freya-je-lai-rencontr%C3%A9/ but my tutorial is in French. Sorry. There is also this one in English but I have not tried: https://github.com/nathandyer/elementary-dropbox-mods
esteban_im says: October 23, 2014 at 5:44 pm Hi, thank you so much for your post. I’ve installed dropbox using .deb from: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx -> I didn’t have .xsessionrc so i created it and writed down: export DROPBOX_USE_LIBAPPINDICATOR=1 -> I did: dropbox stop rm -R .dropbox-dist (i have no more folders thand .dropbox-dist and .drobox) dropbox start -> It downloaded dropbox. -> Logout and Login And nothing appear in the super-wingpanel, not even applications launcher. Just the name of the app windows is focused (i have indicator-appmenu) Solution: Remove .xsessionrc and dropbox. Reinstall dropbox. Still without dropbox indicator. Log in to Reply
Hi, thank you so much for your post. I’ve installed dropbox using .deb from: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx -> I didn’t have .xsessionrc so i created it and writed down: export DROPBOX_USE_LIBAPPINDICATOR=1 -> I did: dropbox stop rm -R .dropbox-dist (i have no more folders thand .dropbox-dist and .drobox) dropbox start -> It downloaded dropbox. -> Logout and Login And nothing appear in the super-wingpanel, not even applications launcher. Just the name of the app windows is focused (i have indicator-appmenu) Solution: Remove .xsessionrc and dropbox. Reinstall dropbox. Still without dropbox indicator.
pavel.dolinin says: October 20, 2014 at 5:02 pm Thank you for the tip. Worked for me. Log in to Reply
Thank you for the tip. Worked for me.
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