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.