No Dropbox icon

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Hello,

I installed Dropbox using flatpak:

flatpak install flathub com.dropbox.Client

However upon Dropbox start, there is no icon to configure the Dropbox settings.
The app runs, and downloads everything, but thats not what I need …

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Welcome to the forum, André.

Did you install the desktop bundle first ?

sudo swupd bundle-list | grep desktop

sudo swupd bundle-add desktop
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Thanks :slight_smile: Yes, GNOME desktop is fully installed and running fine.

Password:
Loading required manifests…
Warning: Bundle “desktop” is already installed, skipping it…
1 bundle was already installed

Another questions is if anyone actually got it working at all ?

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Welcome to the forums! :grin: I would suggest checking that you have status icons enabled through gnome. I forget the default setting, but I know they have an option to hide them.

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For tray icons you need topicons plus as a Gnome extension, and you need to install the proprietary Dropbox client. That can be found at their GitHub, which provides Nautilus integration.

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Can somebody confirm that they managed to enable the icon?

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As I replied before, you need to install the proprietary Dropbox, which comes with Nautilus integration.

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Hey doct0rHu. Many thanks for you replay. I tried to follow your steps but still I don’t get a dropbox icon in the top bar. I did the following:

  • I installed TopIcons Plus over the Software center
  • Then I downloaded Dropbox as a 64bit rpm file from https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-2019.02.14-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm
  • I ran rpm -U --nodeps nautilus-dropbox-2019.02.14-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm
  • Then I started Dropbox over the applications menu and followed the instructions, which downloaded some stuff.
  • After rebooting I can see in the files that icons that dropbox is syncing etc. So that works absolutely fine. Also I am getting notifications. Rightclicking on dropbox folders also give me the options to share etc.
  • However, I still can not access any settings for dropbox because the top icon is missing.

What did I miss?

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I’m away from my computer and I may not recall correctly. The pop-up menu might be available after you installed KStatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support.

If you don’t need that GUI settling, you can use dropbox command in terminal.

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