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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's avatar
    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.

thie's avatar
thie
Helpful | Level 5
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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