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I see no menu after clicking on the Dropbox tray icon on Fedora 43.
Application Affected
Dropbox Tray Icon Device
ThinkPad 230 Operating System/Browser (if using the web)
Linux Fedora 43 Dropbox App Version (if using the app)
Dear all, after losi...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Christos, sorry for jumping in here.
To clarify, youâve hovered over the Dropbox icon in your system tray and you still canât see the Dropbox app version then, correct?
Can you send me a screenshot of the blue syncing icon that you see, if you try and click on the Dropbox icon?
When installing the Dropbox app, did you use the link provided on this page? If not, can you try and reinstall the app with our Linux installer instead and let me know if that helps?
Hi Nancy, and thanks so much for trying to help me. I wasn't aware of that page above. Instead, I've installed from
https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux
(it was the link from Google Search), and downloaded the one for "Fedora 37 or higher". I then used terminal to install a couple of commands to make the tray icon to appear, and Python3-dkg (sorry, can't remember the exact name, but it certainly needed command line to install 2-3 dependencies to make the tray icon also appear).
I did find very tricky the installation of the daemon (it wasn't starting and was stuck at 0% for very long). One command (from Co-Pilot) seems to somehow make it work and finally start downloading, but as mentioned onto the first post, sync menu didn't appear.
All in all, a very tough experience for a Linus newbie such as myself. It would REALLY help if Dropbox could make a full, auto "trouble-free" way to install the App in Debian/Fedora distros, that gives FULL functionality.
It would help a lot if Dropbox could also provide the default option to "free hard drive space" as per Windows & MacOS, where user can have all folders appearing on the File manager, but without taking the space of the hard drive.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Christos
