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Dropbox says the tray icon will be removed, not sure how to add Mate to the panel.
On a reboot I keep getting the error message that the tray icon will be removed from the 27th May & I need to follow some instructions. I follow the link to (It won't let me publish the post with the link Wonderful) which tells me I have to instal Ayatana indicators for my Mint installation by installing (MATE).
I start to follow the instructions
- Done
- Done
- Done
- How? How do I open Mate to then be able to click Add to Panel?
The instructions leave me completely stranded, Mate does not appear as an option from the Menu, I only have MATE Font Viewer (whatever that is) trying Mate or MATE on the command line does nothing
I have libappindicator3-1 installed
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- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi there, Alan_1960, thanks for posting here today!
I believe the error you get is similar to this one, right?
Would you mind taking a look at the relevant thread, and especially what our Community Manager, Neal suggested?
Let me know if this sheds some light on the case. If I've misunderstood, please reach back out with more details.
Thanks!
Megan,
Thank you for that however can you please indicate where on that post it offers a solution & what that solution is? The link to github just takes me to a page of tecchies talking gobbledigook which a simple user like myself doesn't understand. His other comments about sway+bar not swaybar mean even less to me.
Sorry but I am just a user, I need to have a set of instructions that I can follow, like on the initial page a simple 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. unfortunately on that page it appears to go 1, 2, 4, 5 it misses the vital no 3 how to open MATE.
Failing this I will have to stop using Dropbox which will be a shame as it's very useful, which begs the question why are they trying to drive customers away.
fuhry-dbxDropbox Staff
MATE is a desktop environment, which would be selected at your login screen. If you're running a different desktop environment then the procedure will vary. Do you know which desktop environment you're currently using? Some of the other common ones are GNOME, KDE, Xfce and LXDE.
"Linux Mint (MATE)" is a variant of the base Linux Mint distro that uses MATE by default. It sounds like you might be running the standard version of Linux Mint. It's been some time since I've tried that, but I believe they're on a GNOME base these days, in which case the GNOME AppIndicator extension linked elsewhere in the article should work for you.
