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thie
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Dropbox tray icon menu

Since upgrading my desktop last month to Ubuntu 21.10 with Gnome 40.4 on X11 the Dropbox menu no longer pops up  when I click the tray icon. The icon does get 'selected' when I hover the mouse over i...
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    thie
    4 years ago

    This is how I can 'activate' the popup menu: first I double-click the Dropbox tray icon. After that it will pop up, whether I click left or right. Until I have done that, the menu does NOT appear on a left or right click.

    Anyway, this is a simple workaround for a strange problem.

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thie
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Very odd, after some more clicking different mouse buttons at different positions within the icon a popup menu now shows on the desktop! It does have a different style (font, background color) than the popup menus from other icons in the tray area though.

However, after logging out and in again, the old situation (popup menu not showing) is restored.

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