I have installed Dropbox in Fedora 36 and I have noticed some problems.
The first problem is that there is no tray icon (I am using Gnome btw) when Dropbox is running.
More importantly, dropbox insists to autostart. No matter if I type dropbox autostart n or remove it through Gnome Tweaks (from the startup applications section), when I boot up dropbox runs.
What causes this behavior? I am more interested in finding a solution for the second problem since this drains my battery on my laptop.
Thanks for the info. I will check it out. As I said this is not a major problem compared to the fact that I canāt control the Dropboxās autostart behavior.
Thanks for the link. I had checked it before posting this question (as the accepted solution is characterized as ānot elegantā). Also it is 5 years old, so I thought that there will be some alternative solution. I should add that this doesnāt happen on Ubuntu 20.04. Why it happens on Fedora 36?
and then removing all the relevant files/directories.
After this, I reinstalled with the second option that the Dropbox official site provides. The installation step is:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
and the dropbox daemon can be started using:
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
I skipped the download of the additional python script (one can download but I only wanted a way to start and stop dropbox). So one can avoid the automatic startup of dropbox (which was present when dropbox was installed through the .rpm). To stop the dropbox daemon:
Digging a little deeper regarding the RPM, It looks like it is the desktop file⦠running with the -i option appears to put the desktop file back into autostart.