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Alan_1960
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8 months ago

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...
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fuhry-dbx
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8 months ago

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.

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