Giovani, Avoid running as root. File permissions will be divided between root and you, especially if you link your dropbox account to other computers or devices.
To fix the permissions problem: > Dropbox permissions fix (when running dropbox via sudo) > > sudo dropbox stop > sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/Dropbox > EX: sudo chown -R victor:victor /home/victor/Dropbox > sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/.dropbox > sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/.dbus > dropbox start - Victor On 05/05/2017 09:18 AM, Giovani Barbosa wrote: > Hi. > Same here: my Dropbox icon only works when running as root (sudo dropbox > start -i). > > > 2017-05-03 13:11 GMT-03:00 Victor Forberger <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Hi all, > > A recent review of Xubuntu 16.04 on older hardware is available at > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-xerus.html > <http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-xerus.html> > > And, I got my lenovo desktop up and running with Xubuntu 17.04. Power > management issues from 16.10 and 16.04 are gone. Thanks. > > But, the system load monitor panel plugin (configured to show a red bar > for CPU, green for memory, and yellow for swap) is not displaying > correctly (plus, mouse-over no longer supplies readouts of CPU, memory, > or swap usage). For a pic of the display problems, see > https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/ > <https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/>. > > I am also having trouble with Dropbox not displaying properly (the red ΓΈ > box in the panel). None of the recommended fixes -- see, e.g., > > http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/fix-dropbox-indicator-icon-and-menu-not.html > > <http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/fix-dropbox-indicator-icon-and-menu-not.html> > -- work for me. > > Also, Xubuntu 16.04.2 on my laptop via Parallels is working great. > > - Victor > > -- > Victor Forberger > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com > > >
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