Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

[Jacques Montier <jmontier@gmail.com>]

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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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