I just spent WAY too much time trying to get Dropbox to open after I installed it (yay -S dropbox). And when it finally did something, all it did was open the Dropbox website in Firefox.
Was it supposed to do something else, like open an ACTUAL app? Right now, I’m feeling fairly peeved to have wasted the time just to create a shortcut to a website, especially when the “shortcut” is slower than a bookmark.
Was I supposed to install it in a different way? Used something like Distrobox? Prayed to pagan gods first? I know yelling cuss words won’t work because I already tried that one.
Thanks for any light you can shed on this. And please forgive my irritability. I know I can just use the website, but I figured an actual app might be better in some way. Unfortunately, all it’s done so far is test my patience, and my patience FAILED.
Haven’t used dropbox in years, but generalizing with other web-storage apps (like pcloud), they generally offer a flathub or appimage. Have you looked on the flathub store or their web site for a client?
If it’s not showing up in the system tray, check the settings of the system tray and it’s entries. Eventually it’s just disabled or set to shown when relevant. You should be able to change it to always shown. At least for KDE Plasma, this should do the trick. But the ArchWiki should get you covered in case you’re using a different DM. As it also lists some other packages from the AUR which provide dropbox plugins for the various file managers.
I always use the dropbox install instructions from their site:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
Then I set this location to autostart: ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
Yes, it will take you once to the webpage via your browser and get you signed in. Then you click the icon on your taskbar and select sign in on that menu (or if you have set the autostart, log out and back in and it will go to page, I am lazy, I do it this way). Then you are all set.
And, yes, if you are using Gnome you will need to get the appindicators set up.
If you want an easy way to autostart put the desktop file in ~/.config/autostart and it will be all set. Change the path in EXEC line and anything else you need to
Thanks, y’all! I’ll fiddle with it more tomorrow. I’m not even sure I want to use Dropbox, but now, it’s a challenge.
KDE Plasma here. Sorry, I forgot to mention that.
I did take a look at the ArchWiki, but I’m new to EOS and still learning, so I don’t always understand as much as I’d like to. I’ll take another look, and I’ll checkout the instructions from the site.
I know yelling cuss words won’t work because I already tried that one.
And please forgive my irritability. I know I can just use the website, but I figured an actual app might be better in some way. Unfortunately, all it’s done so far is test my patience, and my patience FAILED.
So thank you again.