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Dropbox Client for Linux on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS- icon not clickable.
Guys, I've noticed a bug on Dropbox Client on Ubuntu 23.10 and the same occurs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS after a installed it from scratch on my machine. It's really a bug on the app on desktop.
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Guys, I've noticed the bug is gone here on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS o Gnome 46 and Wayland. I just started my notebook and the icon worked flawlessly. If I encounter another bug I'll relate it here.
This is the version where it started to work:
raulgrangeiro@RAUL-PC-2:~$ dropbox version
Dropbox daemon version: 212.4.5767
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2024.04.17God bless you all!
I don't know if it's a stable solution (will it survive a reboot??), but a recommendation in this thread https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2498274 worked for me (after fixing a typo).
sudo apt --reinstall nautilus-dropbox worked perfectly.
Hi dhlocker,
It's fine that it's working for you. One problem less. 😉
You cannot rely that it's a stable solution though. Actually you cannot rely that it's a solution at all!
'nautilus-dropbox' is deprecated package and only a metapackage. The only thing it does is dependency of (link in fact to) the actual packet - named 'dropbox'. That's it - nothing more. It's known that there is lot of imperfections in Dropbox application and it sometimes work in inconsistent way. Some negligible changes (or changes that should be negligible at least) very often change the application behavior, unfortunately. The mentioned command cannot do anything since its object is empty package; in 'nautilus-dropbox' is no any real content. That's why as this package' description, Dropbox set "This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.". So, better uninstall it completely and let only the installed already 'dropbox' package (that keeps the actual content).
Good luck to all of us and let's hope Dropbox development will get to better coding style (at some future point).
Well, the .deb I installed was https://linux.dropboxstatic.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb Not sure why it thought it was nautilus-dropbox, but that's where I am.
