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rodduarte
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Dropbox in Ubuntu "Dropbox isn't running! Dropbox is already running!"

Dear Dropbox community   I have been struggling with my Dropbox on Ubuntu for a while now. The icon on the system tray had disappeared, but files were still syncing. I tried a couple of things to m...
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MPaulosky
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Hi,

I had the same issue. It was caused by setting 

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gnome

in ~/.profile. When I moved it to ~/.bashrc and rebooted Dropbox started normally and now I have full GUI support with trayicon. 

I'm using Ubuntu 18.10 and this setting is related to QGnomePlatform:
https://github.com/FedoraQt/QGnomePlatform

Hope that helps!

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cfgobel
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

In the end, I completely reinstall my ubuntu. I didn't see @MPauloky answer before.

Thanks anyway, guys.

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