Hi,
I am running Stretch with Xfce and experiencing a minor, but frustrating, issue.
I used to see the Dropbox icon as well as another app I use regularly in the notification area, but longer, it only displays the network icon. Yes I have have ticked the checkbox in Dropbox. When I try start Dropbox from the command line it says it is already running.
If I right click the notification area and view properties I see a list of "known applications", but don't see the applications I am interested in.
Anybody have any ideas? I am willing to do a reinstall if I have to, it's that annoying.
Thanks
ZR
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Items not displayed on notification area
- kc1di
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Re: Items not displayed on notification area
try this command
if that works it can be made permanent by going to autostart and changing the execute command to
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dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start
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dbus-launch dropbox start
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Re: Items not displayed on notification area
dbus-launch works great, but not 100%kc1di wrote:try this commandif that works it can be made permanent by going to autostart and changing the execute command toCode: Select all
dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start
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dbus-launch dropbox start
using Stretch Mate I had a similar problem as the OP did.
icons missing were dropbox, clipit, qbittorrent, and mega.
adding dbus-launch worked for all, but Not for mega.
scratching my head on this.
Google turned up this:
that goes way over my head!DESCRIPTION. The dbus-launch command is used to start a session bus instance of dbus-daemon from a shell script. It would normally be called from a user's login scripts. Unlike the daemon itself, dbus-launch exits, so backticks or the $() construct can be used to read information from dbus-launch.
anyway, thanks for the help