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Desktop icon not appearing in Cinnamon on Linux Mint 19.1
After upgrade from Linux Mint 19.0 "Sarah" to Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" the Dropbox icon no longer shows on the Cinnamon desktop panel . To fix this problem I carried out the following steps.
1) Stop all Dropbox elements running
$ sudo killall dropbox $ ps -ef | grep dropbox dobriain 9487 1785 0 10:20 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dropbox
Dropbox is no longer running.
2) Start using the dbus-launch
This will launch a session bus instance, set the appropriate environment variables so dropbox can find the bus, and then execute dropbox with the start argument.
$ dbus-launch dropbox start & [1] 9741 $ ps -ef | grep dropbox dobriain 9642 1 93 10:24 ? 00:00:49 /home/dobriain/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-63.4.107/dropbox dobriain 9767 1785 0 10:25 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dropbox
3) Disable Dropbox startup preference
Click on the dropbox icon that appeared on the desktop panel. Select "Preferences ..." and under "System" uncheck the box "Start Dropbox on system startup".
4) Create system startup for Dropbox
Now run the following command to create a Linux Mint autostart.
$ cat <<EOM >> ~/.config/autostart/dropbox_launch.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/dbus-launch dropbox start X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true NoDisplay=false Hidden=false Name[en_GB]="Dropbox launch" Comment[en_GB]="Launcher for Dropbox" X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=0 EOM
This creates a file in your home autostart directory and after reboot Dropbox will start automatically.
Happy days!!
Thank you, Walter, for your kind answer!
I guess I made a mess somewhere, so I installed everything again, from scratch (including OS Mint 19.1 itself on my Mac) and everything is fine now.
Regards.
It did not work for me. After steps 1 and 2, I never got an indicator con my desktop panel. I did step 4 and restarted, to no avail. I already put on suppert for indicators on my system preferences.
Is there another way of selecting which folders to sync? Im running out of space on my macbook.
Mint 19.1 fresh install. Thank you for your advice!
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Sorry to hear that PabloBoull - even though Mint is not officially supported, I'm going to take a guess here and imagine that this is caused due to some missing libraries; have you made sure you're meeting all of our minimum requirements as per the page below?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/system-requirements
