[gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[luis jure]

any hints how to make dropbox work on xfce? google returned many hits for
other distributions, or for gentoo but on kde or gnome.

i installed net-misc/dropbox and xfce-extra/thunar-dropbox but all i can
do is upload files with a browser on the website (that is, it recognizes
i have dropbox installed in my computer).

if i run dropbox from the terminal an icon appears on the tray, but it
doesn't do anything. a Dropbox directory was created in my home, but it is
empty and doesn't show the files i uploaded. thunar-xfce doesn't do
anything either.

i installed dropbox on a netbook with xubuntu (also running xfce) and it
just worked. the Dropbox folder shows my uploaded files, and the tray icon
responds.

unfortunately i need dropbox to work on a project with some colleagues
that are using dropbox to share the files.

any help would be very appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Jacques Montier]

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Hi Luis,

I don't se any thunar-dropbox in portage....
You could install gnome-extra/nautilus-dropbox.
I work on xfce and dropbox is launched with xfce starting (dropbox.desktop
in ~/.config/autostart) ; everything works fine.

Cheers,

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Jacques


2013/5/12 luis jure <ljc@internet.com.uy>

>
> any hints how to make dropbox work on xfce? google returned many hits for
> other distributions, or for gentoo but on kde or gnome.
>
> i installed net-misc/dropbox and xfce-extra/thunar-dropbox but all i can
> do is upload files with a browser on the website (that is, it recognizes
> i have dropbox installed in my computer).
>
> if i run dropbox from the terminal an icon appears on the tray, but it
> doesn't do anything. a Dropbox directory was created in my home, but it is
> empty and doesn't show the files i uploaded. thunar-xfce doesn't do
> anything either.
>
> i installed dropbox on a netbook with xubuntu (also running xfce) and it
> just worked. the Dropbox folder shows my uploaded files, and the tray icon
> responds.
>
> unfortunately i need dropbox to work on a project with some colleagues
> that are using dropbox to share the files.
>
> any help would be very appreciated.
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[luis jure]

hi jacques! thanks for your response. i'm glad it's working for you, it
gives me some hope...

i'm afraid i need some more help, though.


on 2013-05-12 at 16:48 Jacques Montier wrote:
 
> I don't se any thunar-dropbox in portage....

no, i found an ebuild in an overlay. i can't see that it does anything,
though.

> You could install gnome-extra/nautilus-dropbox.

"could" like it is optional? do you have it installed? 

> I work on xfce and dropbox is launched with xfce starting
> (dropbox.desktop in ~/.config/autostart) ; 

i'm afraid i don't know exactly how this works. in ~/.config/autostart i
have a few files that contain something like:

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=false

do you mean i should create a similar file named dropbox.desktop?

and what about /etc/init.d/dropbox, should i start the service?

i also noticed that there's a file /etc/conf.d/dropbox, i had to add my 
use to DROPBOX_USERS, otherwise there where errors when i tried to launch
dropbox. 

excuse all the questions, but as you see it's not working for me and i 
don' have much clue what's wrong or how to solve this problem.


best,


lj

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Willie WY Wong]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked:
> and what about /etc/init.d/dropbox, should i start the service?
> 
> i also noticed that there's a file /etc/conf.d/dropbox, i had to add my 
> use to DROPBOX_USERS, otherwise there where errors when i tried to launch
> dropbox. 
> 
> excuse all the questions, but as you see it's not working for me and i 
> don' have much clue what's wrong or how to solve this problem.

Some time ago I downloaded a file dropbox.py from the forums which is
a python script giving commandline interface to start/stop the dropbox
daemon (among other things). It was/is distributed with
nautilus-dropbox, but I didn't want to install the whole gnome
shebang. 

As a result I have not configured /etc/conf.d/dropbox and I don't use
/etc/init.d/dropbox to start it either. 

W

-- 
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         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[codekick]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 20:03:01 +0200
Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@member.ams.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure
> squawked:
> > and what about /etc/init.d/dropbox, should i start the service?
> > 
> > i also noticed that there's a file /etc/conf.d/dropbox, i had to
> > add my use to DROPBOX_USERS, otherwise there where errors when i
> > tried to launch dropbox. 
> > 
> > excuse all the questions, but as you see it's not working for me
> > and i don' have much clue what's wrong or how to solve this problem.
> 
> Some time ago I downloaded a file dropbox.py from the forums which is
> a python script giving commandline interface to start/stop the dropbox
> daemon (among other things). It was/is distributed with
> nautilus-dropbox, but I didn't want to install the whole gnome
> shebang. 
> 
> As a result I have not configured /etc/conf.d/dropbox and I don't use
> /etc/init.d/dropbox to start it either. 
> 
> W
> 

I just added dropbox("dropbox &") to my .xinitrc file,
and it works well.

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Fri, 24 May 2013 20:03:01 +0200
schrieb Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@member.ams.org>:

> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked:
> > and what about /etc/init.d/dropbox, should i start the service?
> > 
> > i also noticed that there's a file /etc/conf.d/dropbox, i had to add my 
> > use to DROPBOX_USERS, otherwise there where errors when i tried to launch
> > dropbox. 
> > 
> > excuse all the questions, but as you see it's not working for me and i 
> > don' have much clue what's wrong or how to solve this problem.
> 
> Some time ago I downloaded a file dropbox.py from the forums which is
> a python script giving commandline interface to start/stop the dropbox
> daemon (among other things). It was/is distributed with
> nautilus-dropbox, but I didn't want to install the whole gnome
> shebang. 
[...]

I believe that is available as net-misc/dropbox-cli. It's how I start/stop
dropbox here.

% dropbox-cli help
Dropbox command-line interface

commands:

Note: use dropbox help <command> to view usage for a specific command.

 status       get current status of the dropboxd
 help         provide help
 puburl       get public url of a file in your dropbox
 stop         stop dropboxd
 running      return whether dropbox is running
 start        start dropboxd
 filestatus   get current sync status of one or more files
 ls           list directory contents with current sync status
 autostart    automatically start dropbox at login
 exclude      ignores/excludes a directory from syncing
 lansync      enables or disables LAN sync

-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Willie WY Wong]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:28:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Marc Joliet squawked:
> I believe that is available as net-misc/dropbox-cli. It's how I start/stop
> dropbox here.

Ooh, it has been in the tree for almost a year now and I didn't notice? Wow.
Especially since I've just started using dropbox a little over a year ago. 

Thanks for the pointer!

W

-- 
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[luis jure]

just for the record (i started the thread), i never could make the dropbox
installed by the ebuild work. so i downloaded the binaries from the dropbox
site and they worked fine from the cli with the dropbox.py script. 

never got to know what was the problem with the dropbox installed by the
ebuild. didn't care much either, i just needed to use dropbox to share
some files with my colleagues. i don't think i'll use it much more now.

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Willie WY Wong]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:45:46PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked:
> 
> just for the record (i started the thread), i never could make the dropbox
> installed by the ebuild work. so i downloaded the binaries from the dropbox
> site and they worked fine from the cli with the dropbox.py script. 
> 
> never got to know what was the problem with the dropbox installed by the
> ebuild. didn't care much either, i just needed to use dropbox to share
> some files with my colleagues. i don't think i'll use it much more now.
> 

What USE flags do you have set? In particular, have you tried
installing with the librsync-bundled flag turned on? 

W

-- 
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[luis jure]

on 2013-05-25 at 02:56 Willie WY Wong wrote:

> What USE flags do you have set? In particular, have you tried
> installing with the librsync-bundled flag turned on? 

i tried now with that USE flag enabled and it works... sort of. 
anyway, it's not a priority now, i might investigate more later.
thanks for the tip.