Upon upgrading to Fedora 31 the dropbox icon in the upper right no longer is available. I have to open Dropbox from Files.
I'm not sure what I did but this morning the icon has appeared when I booted up. Thanks for all the assistance. Wish I could say what I did that corrected the problem.
Hi @psummitt. Thanks for reporting this experience.
Can you share a screenshot of your desktop? What version of Dropbox are you running there?
Have you tried rebooting your computer and reinstalling?
Thanks for the additional information.
Have rebooted and reinstalled. Here's the screenshot. Installed Dropbox from Fedora's software installer. [IMAGE LINK IS BROKEN AND CANNOT BE DISPLAYED]
Hi @psummitt,
What is the result from:
ps ax -o pid,comm | grep "dropbox"cat ~/.dropbox/info.json; echols ~/.dropbox-dist | grep "dropbox-lnx"dropbox status
Execute the above in a terminal and paste the terminal content in your next post.
Hope this will make things more clear.
Thanks. Here are the results:
[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% ps ax -o pid,comm | grep "dropbox"2793 dropbox
paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%cat ~/.dropbox/info.json; echo{"personal": {"path": "/home/paulmsummitt/Dropbox", "host": 59100482496, "is_team": false, "subscription_type": "Basic"}}[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%
[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% ls ~/.dropbox-dist | grep "dropbox-lnx"dropbox-lnx.x86_64-84.4.170[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%
paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% dropbox statusUp to date[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%
Hope that helps.
Everything seems fine, i.e. the application byself work. Unfortunately Dropbox has some strange incompatibilities with some modern system trays. So, some backward compatibility is required. Did you have installed "appindicator" and "libappindicator"?
libappindicator is installed but appindicator doesn't seem to exist when I try to install it.
No match for argument: appindicatorPackage libappindicator-12.10.0-25.fc31.x86_64 is already installed.Error: Unable to find a match: appindicator
"appindicator" is a common name, actual package name is usually something else, like "gnome-shell-extension-appindicator" or similar. If you have "Synaptic", there will be much easier to find the exact package. Could be need also "top-icons", again not rely on the exact name.
installed gnome-shell-extension-appindicator. Rebooted. no change.
Oh.. What can I say more.. Even Dropbox are not sure what they really expect.
Try install "top-icons" (usually "gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus"). If still not working, try looking around dropboxforum. There are some other proposals, someone could work for you.
:slight_smile: Seems you haven't been restarted your graphical shell, so new plugins haven't got in effect (just logout/login were enough). That's why the new plugins got in effect after restart.
Oh, I had restarted the system several times yesterday but it didn't show up until this morning. I'm just glad I have it back. Now if I can get some of my other applications to work properly with Fedora 31 I'll be happy. LOL Again, thanks for all your help. спасибо
I don't believe it. It's gone again this morning.
Did you install TopIcon? If not, try it. Also make sure the extensions are enabled!
Yes and yes.
Thanks for trying all the steps provided. I understand how frustrating this experience can be for you at this point.
I would be happy to create a ticket for you, to troubleshoot this more with a specialized member of our team if you wish @psummitt.
Let me know if I can reach out to you via email or if you already have a ticket with us about this.
I found a solid solution linked below. Basic problem, some old Gnome extensions dont work with Wayland.
Which is the window manager in gnome 3.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/
^^ Installing the above solves the problem
See below link for more details
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/dp20wh/dropbox_on_fedora_31_not_showing_icon/
