[SOLVED] Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

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[SOLVED] Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

Post by Roland »

Mint 14, Cinnamon, 32-bit.

Installed dropbox as always from the dropbox-site.

Syncing is no problem; however, overlay icons (synchronized, not yet synchronized) are missing. I tried changing theme and icons, and tried
https://www.dropbox.com/help/154/en
Unlinking, relinking, reinstalling and so on: no overlay icons.

Any suggestions?
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van_Zeller

Re: Dropbox overlay icons not showing in Mint 14

Post by van_Zeller »

Hi.

I'm new to mint. How do I install dropbox? You mentioned I should install from the site. Should I choose debian or Ubuntu? Thanks
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons not showing in Mint 14

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van_Zeller wrote:Hi.

I'm new to mint. How do I install dropbox? You mentioned I should install from the site. Should I choose debian or Ubuntu? Thanks
Off topic:

Ubuntu, as Mint is based on Ubuntu.
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in N

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Roland wrote:Mint 14, Cinnamon, 32-bit.

Installed dropbox as always from the dropbox-site.

Syncing is no problem; however, overlay icons (synchronized, not yet synchronized) are missing. I tried changing theme and icons, and tried
https://www.dropbox.com/help/154/en
Unlinking, relinking, reinstalling and so on: no overlay icons.

Any suggestions?
It is due to Nemo: I can see the icons in Nautilus, but not in Nemo. Tested on Mint13-64 laptop with Cinnamon 1.6 and Nemo.
Minor problem; I can live with it.
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by ramymamlouk »

I have the same issue here, you're not alone.

However, I noticed that there is a nemo-dropbox extension, but requires me to remove dropbox itself. I haven't had the guts to try it out.

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mamlouk@mamloukwks ~ $ sudo aptitude search dropbox
[sudo] password for mamlouk: 
p   caja-dropbox                    - Dropbox integration for Caja              
i   dropbox                         - Dropbox integration for Nautilus          
p   libnet-dropbox-api-perl         - Perl module providing a dropbox API interf
p   nautilus-dropbox                - Dropbox integration for Nautilus          
p   nemo-dropbox                    - Dropbox integration for Nemo
BopNiblets

Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by BopNiblets »

ramymamlouk wrote:I have the same issue here, you're not alone.

However, I noticed that there is a nemo-dropbox extension, but requires me to remove dropbox itself. I haven't had the guts to try it out.
I had the guts, I did "sudo apt-get install nemo-dropbox" and it says it will remove dropbox before the terminal prompt so I put in Y for yes.
Then it said use "nemo --quit" to quit any current instances of nemo so I did, but then dropbox was still in my menu and I started it and got the syncing icons. :)
heredeiros

Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by heredeiros »

thanks dude, this works.
plAsirius

Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by plAsirius »

I had the guts, I did "sudo apt-get install nemo-dropbox" and it says it will remove dropbox before the terminal prompt so I put in Y for yes.
Then it said use "nemo --quit" to quit any current instances of nemo so I did, but then dropbox was still in my menu and I started it and got the syncing icons. :)
Excellent ! worked like a charm also for me.

Thanks.
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Gunstick

Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by Gunstick »

in fact the nemo-dropbox package downloads the dropbox binary again.

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Downloading Dropbox... 100%
Unpacking Dropbox... 100%
so basically the solution is:

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sudo apt-get install nemo-dropbox && nemo --quit 
then start dropbox from the application menu as indicated
tommyb.

Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Ne

Post by tommyb. »

In case someone runs into sim prob on Mint 17.3 Mate 64bit:

(1) Install first the caja dropbox app from software mgr
(2) Then trigger install from that (asks for sudo) from Mint Menu (sym link under Internet tab)
(3) Nothing happens
(4) Manually trigger dropbox install from Mint Menu (sym link under Internet tab)
....
(Final) Seems to have worked :)
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

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This doesn't seem to work in Mint 18. Tried all the steps mentioned, but no overlay icons.
I installed Dropbox from the Linux repositories. Dropbox itself functions OK.
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

Post by Roland »

No one has the same problem? :(
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

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Roland wrote:No one has the same problem? :(
Surprisingly, no. The original solution of installing nemo dropbox and restarting nemo did the trick for me on 18. I did notice that the emblems were hard to see with the icon theme i am using. Perhaps this is the case for you?
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Re: Dropbox overlay icons visible in Nautilus, but not in Nemo

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I did notice that the emblems were hard to see with the icon theme i am using. Perhaps this is the case for you?
Yes! I changed icons from 'Gnome' to 'Mint-X' and the overlays became visible.
Thank you!
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