Dropbox system tray icon missing, not working
Lubuntu 14.04 ....I have a few machines, all the same OS. One by one Dropbox icon dissappeared.
I have struggled for months. Couldn't recover icon. Got it now!
- In terminal type ...
dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start - Follow the prompts, if any. Two of my machines responded "Dropbox not installed".
sudo apt-get install dropbox- Repeat line 1. Icon appeared. Didn't stay after re-boot.
- Repeat line 1, to get icon.
- Go to Preferences ...General, (Dropbox icon) and un-tick 'Start Dropbox on system startup'.
- Now to 'Default applications for LXSession' (menu ...Preferences)
- Under Autostart, un-tick any previous Dropbox attempts (these can be deleted later).
- Add
dbus-launch dropbox start - Re-boot.
There are some workarounds until the bug is fixed. The best one at this moment (working for Linux distros such as Xubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.) is:
dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start
More details at another StackExchange site: Dropbox icon is not working Xubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 - Ask Ubuntu
Update:
And a more recent workaround that works for more Linux operating systems:
dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start
The solution for Lubuntu 17.04 is (assuming that you have downloaded a .deb file):
1) Make a copy of Dropbox autostart file:
cp ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop ~/.config/autostart/newstart_dropbox.desktop
2) Edit the file newstart_dropbox.desktop. Change the Exec= line to
Exec=dbus-launch dropbox start -i;
3) Copy the file in /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/:
cp /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
4)Edit the file that you copied to ~/.local/share/applications/ like you did in step 2. Change the Exec= line to
Exec=dbus-launch dropbox start -i
5) Disable Dropbox autostart, with the following command on terminal:
dropbox autostart n
Thanks for Andrew and the Wepup8 team for the tips.
http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/fix-dropbox-indicator-icon-and-menu-not.html