Ubuntu – How to fix broken nautilus-dropbox icon in ubuntu 18.04 GNOME-Flashback in top Panel

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How to fix broken nautilus-dropbox icon in ubuntu 18.04 GNOME-Flashback in top Panel?

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image for Dropbox Nautilus bug

Best Answer

To sum up:

  1. Run

    dropbox stop && env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
    
  2. Click on Dropbox icon after it starts up. Go to the "Preferences" and uncheck "Start Dropbox on system startup" (to prevent dropbox from changing the startup command after reboot.)

  3. Go to Applications > Preferences > Startup Applications, if Dropbox is already there click on Edit, and if not click on Add.

    Enter
    Name: Dropbox
    Command: env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
    Comment: Sync your files across computers and to the web

  4. Run

    gedit ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop
    

    replace Exec=dropbox start -i with

    Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
    

and

  1. Run

    sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop
    

    replace Exec=dropbox start -i with

    Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity dropbox start
    
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