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Redbob
Asked: 2017-10-03 17:46:36 +0800 CST

How to enable Dropbox panel icon at startup in Lubuntu?

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I installed Dropbox in Lubuntu. It works perfectly, but panel icon is not shown, because Nautilus is not default file-manager in Lubuntu.

I've been searching for several forum pages at Askubuntu, Ubuntuforums and ArchLinux Forums. They doesn't work entirely in Lubuntu. The best I got is this icon, that is shown in this image,

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but it doesn't work at all.

So I ask: Is there any solution for Dropbox Panel Icon in Lubuntu?

lubuntu

1 Answers

  1. I worked on a solution for this. If I run these commands:

    #!/bin/bash
dropbox stop
sleep 5
dbus-launch dropbox start -i

    Dropbox icon will work like a charm, as image below:

    enter image description here

    So I saved a bash script as /opt/dropbox-start.sh

    Boring is having to open a terminal to execute it. If I put in ~/.profile, it locks lxsession startup. Changing the Exec line in ~/.config/autostart/dropbox launcher, doesn't work, because this launcher is a copy from /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop and it will be replaced by this one at system startup.

    So I decided to change Exec line directly in /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktoplauncher, as it follows:

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Dropbox
GenericName=File Synchronizer
Comment=Sync your files across computers and to the web
Exec=bash /opt/dropbox-start.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=dropbox
Categories=Network;FileTransfer;
StartupNotify=false

    This solution works even if there are several accounts in the computer, because the change was not saved in $HOME folder. To assure dropbox will autostart, check at

    Preferences > Default Applications for LXSession

    if Dropbox is checked as shown below:

    enter image description here

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