Dropbox icon does not show in system tray, with KB 15.04

[Teunis]

Weird, I have/had various problems but these icons do show up:

[SteveRiley]

ownCloud icon's working just fine, guys

[mparillo]

I finally got my icon. Fresh install of Alpha-2, and followed the Headless CLI Instructions.

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[Teunis]

Today brought an updated HPLIP and the icon is back

[Teunis]

And then I bought an SSD and did a totally fresh install.
HPLIP crashes with the old message there is no system tray and I still have to do a hot reboot to get a working system.

This makes me wonder what made the icon show up in the original install...

[mparillo]

I finally got my icon. Fresh install of Alpha-2, and followed the Headless CLI Instructions.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6229[/ATTACH].

I am not sure my fresh install had anything to do with it.
It seems to me that as my other VMs / Partitions are being upgraded, the Drop Box Icon is starting to appear everywhere.
For all I know it is a stealthy Drop Box upgrade.

[Teunis]

Another observation, by enabling Kubuntu backports repository I did get the HPLIP icon back but still no Dropbox and and Skype icons.

[whatthefunk]

Thats weird. A recent update brought it back for me.

[vinnywright]

yup ,,,,,it magically appeared @hear as well



VINNY

[ScottyK]

Running a basic install of 15.04, with only Dropbox installed and no other repositories added. Loaded all the updates today and no Dropbox icon. Is there a repository I should enable?

[vinnywright]

I think most of us are using the backports PPA for updated KDE stuff .

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...untu/backports

VINNY

[claydoh]

Do you get an icon from running Dropbox from the K-menu, or double clicking the binary, or is it not loading at login?


I have the standard deb file from dropbox installed, and it does run for me - but I have since upgraded to Wily. I was using 15.04 with kubuntu-backports installed, and it worked there. I am guessing that updating plasma is putting the correct libraries in the correct places for Dropbox to find.

You could try doing the 'headless' install - which simply installs dropbox locally in your home dir, and looks to have a newer dropbox version than the deb file.
https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

If that doesn't work, then maybe consider upgrading Plasma - which is a good idea in general, major plasma and frameworks upgrades in there

[oshunluvr]

HP systray still crashes here. I have to kill it and re-launch it after it fails on log-in. Same for Synergy.

Error is "No System Tray found"

and still no dropbox icons either.

[ScottyK]

Loaded the backports PPA, and Kubuntu locks up while downloading one of the packages. After rebooting it then hangs everytime on bootup. Wiped that install out and did a fresh install without the backports. Still no dropbox icon.

Not too concerned, as I'm still running 14.10 and I know eventually it will appear in 15.04!

[oshunluvr]

OK well, Dropbox mysteriously appeared in the systray this morning after powering up (I did a full shutdown last night) along with chromium and solaar so the tray appears to be working in that regard. However, synergy and hp-systray still cannot find the system tray so I would assume the issue is now those apps.

The only thing I did significant to my system yesterday was install the grive/Google Drive ppa and add a google drive folder to my home. The grive indicator is also in the systray so maybe it pulled in something I was missing.