I see no menu after clicking on the Dropbox tray icon on Fedora 43.

Actually, unmark it as solved. Every time now I try to do an update of Fedora 43 itself now, the entire update fails because of Dropbox. I just realized the version I can find on linux.dropbox.com/packages is 

2025.05.20-1.fc42

but Fedora 43's updater insists on updating nautilus-dropbox to

2025.05.20-1.fc43

which does not exist anywhere on linux.dropbox.com. The file is completely missing. Fedora tries to search in the Dropbox repositories, but it returns a 404. That means the error is on Dropbox's end, not mine!

https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/fedora/ shows Fedora 39 and Fedora 42 packages, but nothing  for Fedora 43.

Now the Fedora 42 version will sometimes work on Fedora 43, and sometimes it won't. My menu stopped working again, too.

I have just unmarked it. You are right, and I've just had the same experience. My Fedora just upgraded Nautilus from v 49.1 to 49.2, plus some other key upgrades, and I've lost again the Dropbox tray icon submenu. Seems there is nothing else I can do. Why is that difficult for Dropbox to keep up with Linux? Fedora 43 was out quite a few months ago, so why there is still no RPM for Fedora 43 and we are losing so many manhours trying to figure out what to do? !!

Application Affected
Dropbox
Device
PC (12700k cpu, 4080 gpu)
Operating System/Browser (if using the web)
Fedora 43 (fresh install) - Workstation edition (with Gnome)
Dropbox App Version
Dropbox dameon version: 239.4.8301
Dropbox command-lin interface version: 2025.05.02
Gnome desktop with AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support installed

Question or Issue

I'm unable to access the Dropbox settings from desktop. It is working and the files are being downloaded. Clicking the app icon in the menubar does nothing. Left click, right click, and middle click produce no results. I have no access to the preferences to be able to move my folder to my dedicated Dropbox drive. Clicking on the application icon in my dock does nothing. 

This is a new Fedora install. Any help is appreciated. All I really need to do is change the location of the Dropbox sync folder to a dedicated drive as opposed to my home folder. 

Note, I was previously on an Ubuntu install. Dropbox worked fine and I was able to access all the settings.  

Hey bdmoakley, thanks for bringing this to our attention! 

Give me some time to check for additional details on this, and I'll reply as soon as I have more info. 

Thanks a bunch, hang tight! 

Hi Megan,

Thanks for looking into this for me. Being ever the tinkerer, I was doing some google searches for the issue and managed to stumble into a solution. 

I found this reddit discussion about the issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/12z271n/2304_dropbox_icon_is_not_clickable/

This comment solved the problem for me:

It appears that one needs to have the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support gnome extension installed for the Dropbox menu to work.

However the menu no longer works after Powering Off or doing a Restart. However other forums state that the menu is restored after locking the screen by pressing "Windows+L" or "Super+L" and then unlocking the screen again. This has worked for me.

It seems that Dropbox does not play well with some gnome extensions such as Dash to Panel. However the aforementioned Lock screen trick works with Dash to Panel enabled.

I followed their advice and locked my system, then unlocked it. Voilà, I can access the settings now! Happy days are here again. This sounds more like an issue on the gnome side of things. Thank you for looking nonetheless. It may be beneficial to let users know in the installation documentation about this edge case. In any case, you have this post for reference when it appears again.

Thanks again for your time!

Regards,
Brian

Hi Christos K., scarbosheep, bdmoakley, I've sent you separate emails, please could you reply to them when you get a chance?