Dropbox--lost the GUI

[DoYouKubuntu]

At some point I lost the GUI for Dropbox. As I recall, it's Nautilus-based. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you recall how you fixed it? I have a question in to Dropbox Support but thought I'd ask here, too. Everything works as expected, i.e., files sync on DB's server, I'm just missing its GUI.

[GreyGeek]

There is several service options on Dolphin one can download, and the Nautilus option is in the repository.

[DoYouKubuntu]

I'm lost. Dropbox was basically no help, saying that even though Kubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu, they don't support it.

I had already tried uninstalling/reinstalling but that didn't bring back the GUI.

Does anyone know the CLI command to start DB with its GUI? I know I have the damned thing, I just don't know how to get it running again. I looked at the list of installed files in its Synaptic entry, and tried running a few of them, but nothing.

Also, GG, I'm lost regarding your Dolphin remark...downloadable from where?

[GreyGeek]

Start Dolphin.
Click the Dolphin "Settings" --> "Configure Dolphin" menu option.
Click on the Services icon in the left panel.
In the right panel click on the "Download Services" button.
In that dialog GUI enter "dropbox" in the search text box. Three options will appear. The first, "KDE Services" is the one you want. Click on its "Install" button Do NOT install the 2nd option, even though it is labeled "Dropbox service menu" because it depends on Python2 and it won't work on our Python3 systems. The third option might be useful to you as well.

Or, you can visit this site: https://store.kde.org/p/998464 and download that "KDE Services" for Dolphin tar file (5th offering) from there. The other offerings are RPM based.
Here is how to install and uninstall it:

Steps for install source code from terminal:
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1- tar xf kde-services-3.0.1.tar.bz2
2- cd kde-services-3.0.1
3- sudo make install

Steps for uninstall source code from terminal:
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1- tar xf kde-services-3.0.1.tar.bz2
2- cd kde-services-3.0.1
3- sudo make uninstall

Here is what it supplies (besides the kitchen sink!)

Enables the following functionalities on the Dolphin's (File Manager) right click contextual menu on KDE [4.x|5.x].

Submenu "Actions" => "KDE-Services" (it is shown when clicked any file/dir)
             - "Add Timestamp Prefix to [file|dir]name"
             - "Change Timestamp to [file|directory]"
             - "Send by Email"
             - "[audio|video] Info" (it is shown only when clicked any audio/video file)
             - "Show [file|directory] Status"
             - "Change Owner Here" (owner and permission of file/dir)
             - "Text Replace" (it is shown only when clicked any text file)
             - "Compressed File Integrity Check" (it is shown only when clicked any compressed file)
             - "MKV Extract Subtitle" (it is shown only when clicked MKV video file)
             - "Multiplex Subtitle" (only support MPEG-2 video file)(it is shown only when clicked MPG video file)
             - "[file|dir]name Whitespace Replace" (by underscore ASCII)(it is shown when clicked an directory)

Submenu "AVI Tools" (it is shown only when clicked AVI video file)
             - "Split (to size)"
             - "Split (by time range)"

Submenu "Android Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Android Backup Manager" (backup or restore all device applications and data)
             - "Android File Manager" (copy file/dir from/to device)
             - "Android Package Manager" (install/uninstall *.apk applications)
             - "Android Reboot Manager" (reboots the device, optionally into the bootloader or recovery program)

Submenu "Backup Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Standards" (backup/restore directories /etc/ and /root/ or GnuPG, FileZilla, Firefox, Chrome,
                            KDE, KDE-Services, Pidgin, SSH, Thunderbird, Wine and X-Moto user configurations)

Submenu "CheckSum Tools" (it is shown when clicked any file)
             - "MD5 (strong)"
             - "SHA1 (good strong)"
             - "SHA256 (very strong)"
             - "SHA512 (high strong)"
             - "Verify CheckSum" (checksum file *.md5/*.sha1/*.sha256/*.sha512)

Submenu "Dolphin Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Connect to" (FTP/SFTP/SMB protocol)
             - "Registered Servers" (show or edit IP/Hostname previously connected)
             - "Disk Space Used"

Submenu "Dropbox Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Copy to Dropbox"
             - "Move to Dropbox"
             - "Copy to Public Dropbox and get URL"
             - "Move to Public Dropbox and get URL"
             - "Get public URL"
             - "Install Dropbox service"
             - "Update Dropbox service"
             - "Start Dropbox service"
             - "Stop Dropbox service"
             - "Enable autostart Dropbox service"

Submenu "Graphic Tools" (it is shown only when clicked any image file)
             - "The Converter" (from several image file formats to BMP, EPS, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PBM,
                                PDF, PGM,PNG,PPM,PSD,SGI,TGA,TIFF or XPM)
             - "The Sizer" (resize custom image frame width)
             - "16x16 (icon)"
             - "32x32 (icon)"
             - "48x48 (icon)"
             - "64x64 (icon)"
             - "128x128 (icon)"
             - "256x256 (icon)"
             - "300x300 (carnet)"
             - "320x240 (qvga)"
             - "352x288 (cif)"
             - "414x532 (visa)"
             - "480x320 (hvga)"
             - "512x512 (icon)"
             - "532x532 (passport)"
             - "640x480 (vga)"
             - "720x480 (ntsc)"
             - "800x600 (svga)"
             - "960x540 (qhd)"
             - "1024x768 (xga)"
             - "1280x1024 (sxga)"
             - "1366x768 (wxga)"
             - "1440x900 (wxga)"
             - "1600x1200 (uxga)"
             - "1920x1200 (wuxga)"
             - "2048x1080 (2k)"
             - "2560x2048 (qsxga)"
             - "3200x2048 (wqsxga)"
             - "3840x2400 (wquxga)"
             - "4096x2160 (4k)"
             - "5120x4096 (hsxga)"
             - "6400x4096 (whsxga)"
             - "7680x4800 (whuxga)"
             - "8192x4320 (8k)"

Submenu "ISO-9660 Image Tools" (it is shown only when clicked ISO-9660 image file)
             - "Mount ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Unmount ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Integrity Check"
             - "Insert MD5sum"
             - "Show MD5sum ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Show SHA1sum ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Show SHA256sum ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Show SHA512sum ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Burn ISO-9660 Image"
             - "Show ISO-9660 Image Info"
             - "Show Optical Drive Info"

Submenu "MEGA Tools" (it is shown when clicked any file/dir)
             - "Register New Account"
             - "Save User Login Credentials"
             - "Show Available Cloud Space"
             - "Create New Remote Folder"
             - "List Files Stored in Cloud"
             - "Remove Files Stored in Cloud"
             - "Upload Files to Cloud"
             - "Synchronize [from|to] Cloud"

Submenu "Midnight Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "[root ~]# mc" (shell file manager GNU Midnight Commander with superuser privileges)
             - "[root ~]# mcedit" (internal file editor of GNU Midnight Commander with superuser privileges)
             - "[user ~]$ mc" (shell file manager GNU Midnight Commander with user privileges)
             - "[user ~]$ mcedit" (internal file editor of GNU Midnight Commander with user privileges)

Submenu "Multimedia Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "DVD Assembler" (with menu)
             - "Convert Video Files" (from several video file formats to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI,
                                      VCD, SVCD, DVD, 3GP, FLV or WebM)
             - "Add Subtitle to MP4 Files"
             - "Volume Normalize of MP3 Files"
             - "[extract|convert] Audio Track" (from several audio file formats to MP3, MP3(432Hz),
                                                FLAC, FLAC 432Hz, OGG or OGG 432Hz)
             - "Rotate Video Files"
             - "Edit Time from Media Files"
             - "Attach Cover to MP3 Files"
             - "Clean Metadata from Media Files"
             - "Concatenate Media Files with Same Codec"
             - "Build ISO-9660 Image from Here" (from selected directory)
             - "DiskCloner" (binary copy from selected optical disk device to ISO-9660 image file)
             - "Record My Desktop" (record video screen)
             - "Play Video from Here" (play video files list from selected directory)

Submenu "Network Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Connect Sentry" (show every established connection to previously selected ports)
             - "HTTP Server" (from selected directory)
             - "Listening Sockets"

Submenu "PDF Tools" (it is shown only when clicked PDF file)
             - "Apply Owner Password (DRM)"
             - "Apply User Password (Encrypt)"
             - "Apply DRM + Encrypt"
             - "Decrypt (DRM)"
             - "Fixer (if possible)"
             - "Extract Select Pages"
             - "Extract All Pages"
             - "Extract All Images"
             - "Optimize"
             - "Compress"
             - "View Metadata"
             - "Edit Metadata"
             - "Merge Selected Files"
             - "Split in Single Page per File"
             - "Information"

Submenu "Package Tools" (it is shown only when clicked SRPM/RPM file)
             - "Show Changelog"
             - "Show Info"
             - "List Content"
             - "List Configuration Files"
             - "List Dependencies"
             - "List [ins|unins]tallation Scripts"
             - "Extract Files Here"
             - "Integrity Check"

Submenu "SSH Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Public Key Generation" (1st mandatory step before connect to remote server)
             - "Install Public Key" (2nd mandatory step before connect to remote server)
             - "Connect to Remote Server"
             - "Send to Remote Server" (only file support)
             - "Mount point to Remote Directory" (mount/unmount remote directory over SSH protocol
                                                  in local filesystem)
             - "Registered Servers" (show or edit IP/Hostname previously connected)

Submenu "SaMBa Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "SaMBa Shares Mounter" (mount/unmount remote shared directory over SMB protocol
                                       in local filesystem)

Submenu "Search Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Search Here" (recursively starting from the selected directory)
             - "Search by Name" (file/dir name on all filesystem)
             - "Search by String" (recursively starting from the selected directory into file content)
             - "Statistics Search DataBase"
             - "Update Search DataBase"
             - "Modified Files Here" (recursively starting from the selected directory
                                      showing all modified files for the 2nd time that is executed)

Submenu "Security Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Mount Encrypted Directory" (mount an encrypted virtual filesystem
                                            from the selected directory)
             - "Unmount Encrypted Directory" (unmount an encrypted virtual filesystem
                                              from the selected mountpoint directory)
             - "Encrypt Directory" (create an encrypted virtual filesystem in the selected directory)

Submenu "Security Tools" (it is shown when clicked any file)
             - "Secure Send to Mailx" (file as email attachment; need SMTP service running in localhost)
             - "Encrypt"
             - "Decrypt"
             - "Paranoid Shredder" (delete files in a very safe way)

Submenu "System Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Build Custom Kernel" (customize the system kernel easily, increasing the system performance
                                      and/or adding more hardware support, only for distros based on RHEL)
             - "Check Kernel Update" (only for distros based on RHEL)
             - "Rebuild RPM Package" (customize applications easily, increasing the application performance
                                      and/or adding more support, only for distros based on RHEL)
             - "System Information"
             - "System Monitor" (show system log fail/error events when they happen)
             - "Process Viewer"
             - "Xorg Configure" (create a configuration file for X11R7 X server)

Submenu "Terminal Tools" (it is shown only when clicked shell scripts/apps file)
             - "Run Application"
             - "Run Application (Root)"

Submenu "YouTube Tools" (it is shown when clicked an directory)
             - "Video Downloader"
             - "Video List Code Collector"

[claydoh]

As to "gui" do you mean the tray icon, and access to the settings, or to a file manager window? Mine here opens a dolphin window when I double click it. Not sure what Nautilus integration adds.

the command to run the dropbox tray applet as downloaded from Dropbox is

dropbox start -i

[kc1di]

I just install nautilus-dropbox and it works fine.

[SecretCode]

On my "old" Kubuntu 14.04 I lost the tray icon some time ago and have lived without it. On a new Kubuntu 18.04 installation, it's there and the menu and settings UI are available. But both just have the 'dropbox' package installed (not nautilus-dropbox which is an empty package just depending on dropbox).

So I think it is probably something messed up in the config ... but I haven't tried isolating it.

[DoYouKubuntu]

I haven't looked lately, but I believe nautilus-dropbox is just a dummy transitional package [in Synaptic]. If I uninstall DB, then both dropbox and nautilus-dropbox disappear from Synaptic; the only way to get them back is to install DB via its downloaded package.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Yeah, my tray icon is gone, too...

[oshunluvr]

Thread moved because it's clearly a on-topic discussion.