Until it gets fixed, a temporary workaround from the command line (Konsole, Terminal, etc.), which is working these days for users of Xubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.: dropbox stopĪbout the 'sudo', running Dropbox as root overcomes the permission bug, and the tray icon works again correctly. This Dropbox tray icon bug seems to be related to permissions. Hope it stays off after this one.ĮDIT: To implement this fix in a script that run every time session starts, try this solution:

and for some reason I still had to remove the autostart setting from Dropbox GUI (click icon > Preferences > Start Dropbox on system startup). This way the daemon runs as a normal user and not as root.ĮDIT: If you create your own startup script for Dropbox based on this fix, remember to disable the default startup script with ' dropbox autostart n' command (Thank StockBreak for this one, saved me some time this morning).ĮDIT2. This seems to move the icon back to 'notification area' which fixes both icon and menu. I think the bug is connected to Dropbox starting to use 'indicator area' for their tray icon instead of 'notification area' and the sudo-fix just happens to work because of some environment variables are not in use with sudo sessions.Īt least for me this problem can be fixed by running: dropbox stop & DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='' dropbox start

Just got this bug on my Xubuntu 15.10, broken icon and no way to open the menu.

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