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zombie_ramboz
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Items not displayed on notification area

#1 Post by zombie_ramboz »

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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#2 Post by kc1di »

try this command

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dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start
if that works it can be made permanent by going to autostart and changing the execute command to

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dbus-launch dropbox start 
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Re: Items not displayed on notification area

#3 Post by sdibaja »

kc1di wrote:try this command

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dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start
if that works it can be made permanent by going to autostart and changing the execute command to

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dbus-launch dropbox start 
dbus-launch works great, but not 100%
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:
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.
that goes way over my head!

anyway, thanks for the help

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