I don't think there's really a clean option here - in the end I decided to just live with the icon, even though it's the only icon in my system tray that isn't monochrome, so it keeps catching my attention. If you manage to do, you will be able to see the. Quick check: Try starting Dropbox manually. If you check that selection, once your system starts, Dropbox will be loaded when Ubuntu starts up, and you will be able to see the Dropbox icon in tray.
if a file is added, or there are connection problems that mean files aren't being synced). It looks like your Dropbox preferences have not been set to: 'Start Dropbox on system startup'. The downside of this approach is you don't have access to the icon at all any more, and don't get notifications (e.g. To do this, go to "System Settings" > "Autostart", select "Dropbox", click the "Properties." button, and in the "Application" tab change the value of the "Command" field from dropbox start -i to DISPLAY= dropbox start -i (with a space after the = but not before).
Unfortunately, Dropbox actually creates a bunch of processes and takes a while to start up, so you probably still need to add a couple of hundred PIDs to the hiddenItems line, but at least you can narrow down the range a bit.Īlternatively, you could disable the Dropbox icon altogether by clearing the DISPLAY environment variable when starting it. As a workaround for the problem in the accepted answer, you could force Dropbox to open with a specific PID by running it with sudo echo 10000 > /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid dropbox start -i, which will cause the next process to have PID 10001 (based on ).
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