Tray icon not showing on Arch+Cinnamon after trying all other recipes from these forums

Dear Lucil,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

In brief: your suggestion to downgrade to 96.4.172 did not work, the icon did not appear. However, a different error message appeared not.

Not so in brief: I unchecked the ‘Early release’ option, as you told me to, purged everything (including .dropbox and .dropbox-dist), installed it anew, and witnessed this strange behaviour. It is syncing:

~ > dropbox-cli status
Syncing 2,336 files • 35 mins
Uploading 1 file...
Downloading 2,335 files (9,891 KB/sec, 35 mins)

However, the version number won’t appear if asked for:

~ > dropbox-cli version
Dropbox daemon version: Not installed
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04

When invoked not via `dropbox-cli version` but rather via `dropbox --version`, it threw an error message about permissions and asked me to show it to the tech support—but at least it reports the version number:

bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 96.4.172
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 37
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: 4c041ec0-71fc-43bc-a215-a51041f2499e
pid: 2042
ppid: 1438
ppid exe: '/usr/bin/zsh'
uid: 1000
user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='avk', pw_passwd='x', pw_uid=1000, pw_gid=1000, pw_gecos='', pw_dir='/home/avk', pw_shell='/bin/zsh')
effective_user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='avk', pw_passwd='x', pw_uid=1000, pw_gid=1000, pw_gecos='', pw_dir='/home/avk', pw_shell='/bin/zsh')
euid: 1000
gid: 1000
egid: 1000
group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='avk', gr_passwd='x', gr_gid=1000, gr_mem=[])
effective_group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='avk', gr_passwd='x', gr_gid=1000, gr_mem=[])
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: None
cwd: '/home/avk'
real_path='/home/avk'
mode=0o40755 uid=1000 gid=1000
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: '/home/avk'
appdata: '/home/avk/.dropbox'
real_path='/home/avk/.dropbox'
mode=0o40755 uid=1000 gid=1000
parent mode=0o40755 uid=1000 gid=1000
dropbox_path: None
not found
parent not found
sys_executable: '/opt/dropbox/dropbox'
real_path='/opt/dropbox/dropbox'
mode=0o100755 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
trace.__file__: '/opt/dropbox/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
real_path='/opt/dropbox/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
not found
parent not found
tempdir: '/tmp'
real_path='/tmp'
mode=0o41777 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 8145, in main_startup
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 3287, in run
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 1553, in startup_low
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 1392, in _parse_command_line_flags
File "getopt.pyc", line 93, in getopt
File "getopt.pyc", line 157, in do_longs
File "getopt.pyc", line 174, in long_has_args
getopt.GetoptError: option --version not recognized

This is all very strange since while the error message says it is indeed `bn.VERSION: 96.4.172`, it fails to detect `/home/avk/Dropbox ` as the home directory.

The bottom line is, the tray icon is nowhere to be seen.

—

I went to the support page, and there were 3 options: Live chat, Email, and Community. This is how I ended up here contacting you—are you suggesting changing it to Email or Live chat to get further assistance?