JanJans Blog

Note to self: If the dropbox system tray icon does not show up in the KDE task bar, there are two things you can do:

1. First, dropbox stop. Then check if the file/socket that the variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS points to does exist. If not, setting it to an empty value might work. After that, dropbox start.
2. Again, first dropbox stop. Then restart it using dbus-launch dropbox start -i

On this notebook both variants work. The latter seems to be more elegant. Nonetheless I have to verify this works on my desktop PC. Installed packages: net-misc/dropbox-3.19.34:0, net-misc/dropbox-cli-1.6.0:0

References: Gentoo Forums #7884990, Gentoo Forums #7890202

Update 29.4.: Seems to work on my desktop PC, too. Still, I wonder why it does not show in the first place. Must have something to do with my ancient configuration...