I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and wanted to change my Dropbox indicator-applet icon to make it look more uniform with the other icons. I found this suggestion of a PPA and package to try and followed these instructions: How can I change Dropbox's indicator applet icon?
This worked fine, however, after deciding that I didn't like those icons I uninstalled them via a sudo apt-get autoremove monochrome-icons-extra then did a ppa-purge on that PPA. I then stopped and started Dropbox and at that point was missing an icon all together. I can click in the empty space where the Dropbox icon should be and get the drop-down menu, so I know Dropbox is running. I also confirmed this buy running dropbox status and it returned idle. I tried rebooting but that didn't make a difference, the icon still wont show up.
Next I tried reinstalling Dropbox via sudo apt-get --reinstall install nautilus-dropbox, that had no effect. I then tried to completely remove everything and reinstall. To accomplish this I did the following:
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove nautilus-dropbox
rm ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox-dist ~/.dropbox-dist-new
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox*
I then went to dropbox.com and downloaded the latest .deb and installed it that way and the icon was still missing, ARGH!
Through a little research, I discovered that the PPA installed the icons to to /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/dropboxstatus-*.svg and that's how it changed the icons. The images aren't there any more (having uninstalled the PPA), but when I checked on my laptop where Dropbox is working fine, there aren't any other icons in that location, either.
What is going on and how do I fix this?
Best Answer
Going by the info found in this dropbox update and the subsequent OMG! Ubuntu! article regarding that update, it would seem the files you need are (should be) in
Also be sure that your per-user setting doesn't ruin things. Check (I think it should be that one anyway) :
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