ElementaryOS Freya - Dropbox Icon

Question

I'm having some troubles with dropbox icon on tray with ElementaryOS Freya

Dropbox is synchronizing, the unique problem is the icon on tray that I can't show anyway.

Procedures done:

1 - Instaled dropbox by .deb downloaded from dropbox site using dpkg -i

2 - Instaled by .tar downloaded from dropbox site using this:

$ cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

3 - Instaled by Elementary repository using:

$ sudo apt-get install dropbox

4 - I've deleted the folders ~/.dropbox , ~/.dropbox.dist and executed the daemon again with $ dropbox start -i

5 - I've put the code export DROPBOX_USE_LIBAPPINDICATOR=1 in files: ~/.bashrc, ~/xsessionrc and /etc/profile.

6 - I've instaled the packages: pantheon-files-plugin-dropbox and libappindicator1

Any idea for fix?

Answer 1

A quick fix I go into detail on my blog here, but simply here:

1. Kill dropbox, and restart it so it shows

   dropbox stop && env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
   

2. Go to the settings in dropbox after it starts up and select to not start at startup.

3. Go to system settings -> Applications, from the tab up top select "Startup" and add a command from the + button at the bottom left and there will be an input where you can enter in a command below and press enter to save:

   env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
   

Restart and you should be good to go.