Fedora 31 tray icon no longer available

Hi psummitt. Thanks for reporting this experience. 

Can you share a screenshot of your desktop? What version of Dropbox are you running there? 

Have you tried rebooting your computer and reinstalling? 

Thanks for the additional information. 

Have rebooted and reinstalled.  Here's the screenshot.  Installed Dropbox from Fedora's software installer. [IMAGE LINK IS BROKEN AND CANNOT BE DISPLAYED]

Hi psummitt,

What is the result from:

ps ax -o pid,comm | grep "dropbox"
cat ~/.dropbox/info.json; echo
ls ~/.dropbox-dist | grep "dropbox-lnx"
dropbox status

Execute the above in a terminal and paste the terminal content in your next post.

Hope this will make things more clear.

Thanks.  Here are the results:

[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% ps ax -o pid,comm | grep "dropbox"
2793 dropbox

paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%
cat ~/.dropbox/info.json; echo
{"personal": {"path": "/home/paulmsummitt/Dropbox", "host": 59100482496, "is_team": false, "subscription_type": "Basic"}}
[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%

[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% ls ~/.dropbox-dist | grep "dropbox-lnx"
dropbox-lnx.x86_64-84.4.170
[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%

paulmsummitt@Centauri]~% dropbox status
Up to date
[paulmsummitt@Centauri]~%

Hope that helps.

Hi psummitt,

Everything seems fine, i.e. the application byself work. Unfortunately Dropbox has some strange incompatibilities with some modern system trays. So, some backward compatibility is required. Did you have installed "appindicator" and "libappindicator"?

libappindicator is installed but appindicator doesn't seem to exist when I try to install it.

No match for argument: appindicator
Package libappindicator-12.10.0-25.fc31.x86_64 is already installed.
Error: Unable to find a match: appindicator

"appindicator" is a common name, actual package name is usually something else, like "gnome-shell-extension-appindicator" or similar. If you have "Synaptic", there will be much easier to find the exact package. Could be need also "top-icons", again not rely on the exact name.

installed gnome-shell-extension-appindicator.  Rebooted.  no change.

Oh.. What can I say more.. Even Dropbox are not sure what they really expect.

Try install "top-icons" (usually "gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus"). If still not working, try looking around dropboxforum. There are some other proposals, someone could work for you.