Search for Caja Dropbox and / or Dropbox and remove them from the Startup Application.

You will be prompted to Restart Caja - click Restart Caja once / twice and then click Close.Open Software Boutique and search for Caja, click the Install button for Caja Dropbox.Open Software Boutique and search for Caja, click the Remove button for Caja Dropbox.Hope this workaround helps at least to adjust your Dropbox Preferences once in a while, when required.īut even if the Dropbox icon in the system tray is broken, Dropbox will work as expected.įound following solution for Ubuntu MATE 17.10 and Dropbox (by installing Ubuntu MATE 18.04 alpha and Caja-Dropbox)… So I decided to stay with kernel 4.13.0.21 where Hibernate is not broken (I know this is not safe at all !).

Unfortunately for me, Hibernate (in fact Wake up from Hibernate) is not working anymore with the latest kernel update (4.13.0.25). I can live with this issue because I used hibernate and the issue occurs only when you restart the PC but does not occur if you wake up the PC from hibernate. The bad thing is you will have to perform steps 8 and 9 each time you restart your PC (or at least this is the situation on my PC running Ubuntu MATE 17.10.1).

Deselect the Dropbox entry with the Dropbox icon again to make sure you will be able to adjust Dropbox Preferences after you restart your PC.

You will notice that the Dropbox entry with the Dropbox icon is activated (selected) again, even if you’ve deselected before.

Uncheck the Start Dropbox on system startup option in the General tab.

The correct Dropbox icon will show up in the system tray and you will be able to adjust Dropbox Preferences….

with default config icon and check that command is dbus-launch dropbox start -i -> click Cancel

Edit the 1.with the Dropbox icon and check that command is dropbox start -i -> click Cancel and deselect (remove the check mark) from the list of Startup Applications.

There are 2 “Dropbox” entries there: 1.with the Dropbox icon and 2.with some default config icon.

Open Control Center and click Startup Applications.

What I’ve done to access the Dropbox Preferences:

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