Re: Dropbox howto

I figured it would do something like that.
But it only keeps there waiting to start, perhaps I didnt waited long enough?

All my icon was telling me is "Start dropbox", and if I clicked on it, it would try to connect and go back to   the "start dropbox" thing.

I dont even know if it is related but if I try to run dropboxd it claims I'm missing a binascii

Re: Dropbox howto

Hmm, I am not quite sure what is causing the troubles on your system. Perhaps you could try one of the other methods: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/2432/#p2432 ?

Re: Dropbox howto

Nahh.

I decided to let it go. I actually dont need dropbox, I have an account, but at the moment is not a necessity.
It is probably just something wrong with my connection, it will work when I need it.

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Re: Dropbox howto

hello, i followed the guide and i got a working dropbox,

however, i made a mistake, i am using thunar under gnome (not openbox) so i created the autostart.sh directly in the .config/autostart folder.

what happens now, each time i login into my system, i get a delay of 60 seconds for everything to startup ( network manager,dropbox,  and all the autostarted programs in the session) which is really annoying.

i deleted the autostart.sh, and the problem persists, in the sessions autostart apps, i cant see anything that leads me to why i am still getting this delay.

any help is much appreciated.

Last edited by xd4 (2009-01-01 06:49:37)

Re: Dropbox howto

pbsMind wrote:

I did this:

   1. Download just the bin files here: http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
   2. Extract and move .dropbox to ~/.dropbox
   3. Add this line ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

source

I did the same, and used corenominal's nautilus substitution script. The method described in the first post of this thread does not work for me (crunchbang 8.10) as it  has no nautilus, and installing it is a no-go.

Re: Dropbox howto

pbsMind wrote:

I did this:

   1. Download just the bin files here: http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
   2. Extract and move .dropbox to ~/.dropbox
   3. Add this line ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

source

Wow, excellent tip!! I was really exited about using Dropbox to sync some files between my main laptop (with windows on it neutral ) and my Eee but reluctant to install Nautilus and 70(?) other packages... and then your solution! Thanks a lot, it works flawlessly along with corenominal's nautilus script (although I prefer PCManFM).

Last edited by TucknDar (2009-01-15 19:21:23)

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Re: Dropbox howto

changed it to work with pcmanfm and the guide was perfect smile. Ty big_smile

Re: Dropbox howto

Hi

Got this working super using cruncheee on my 701 by using this instead:

#!/bin/bash
exec pcmanfm $@
exit 0

Would it be worth mentioning in the wiki?

Last edited by scket (2009-02-01 01:12:16)

Re: Dropbox howto

pbsMind wrote:

I did this:

   1. Download just the bin files here: http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
   2. Extract and move .dropbox to ~/.dropbox
   3. Add this line ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

source

Sorry, but I'm a little confused on line 2.  Where is ~/?  I tried cp'ing the directory to that in the terminal but it didn't work.  I tried googling around to see what it meant, but had no luck.

Re: Dropbox howto

~ is short for your home directory.  So, in my case, my home directory is /home/eric - yours might be something like /home/bobg3 or /home/bob (or sub whatever your username is in place of bob), so you'd want to put the .dropbox folder in your /home/<your username> directory.

Last edited by sewmyheadon (2009-02-06 17:48:43)

Re: Dropbox howto

Ah, thank you.  I was under the impression that '/' meant the previous directory (where if the file was on my desktop, /filename meant it would be in my home folder).  Thanks for the clarification.

Re: Dropbox howto

You're welcome.

/  means the root of your file  system
./ means current directory
../ means up one directory
../../ means up two directories
~ is your personal home dir

So, if you're in a terminal and browsing, say, your /etc directory and want to quickly switch to your music directory in your home folder, you can type cd ~/music.

Re: Dropbox howto

Oh, that makes sense.  Thanks. smile
And sorry about hi-jacking the thread a little.

Re: Dropbox howto

sewmyheadon wrote:

So, if you're in a terminal and browsing, say, your /etc directory and want to quickly switch to your music directory in your home folder, you can type cd ~/music.

Yup !

And if you want to go back to your home dir just type

cd

big_smile

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Re: Dropbox howto

corenominal wrote:

7: We will now create a fake Nautilus script, which will in fact launch Thunar when Dropbox requests it. We will placing the script in ~/bin. If you have deleted this directory, you will need to recreate it.

After completing your fabulous workaround, will dropbox work if you delete the bin folder that you may or may not have had to recreate? If you can't delete it and still run dropbox, how can you hide it?

Thanks, I love Dropbox.

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Re: Dropbox howto

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

ploop ploop ploopity ploop ploop ploop

Re: Dropbox howto

underscore3d wrote:

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

I believe you have to keep nautilus installed. Refer to corenominal's first post on the subject where he says if you are the kind of person that minds having extra space taken up that you are not going to be using, then this tutorial isn't for you. Or something like that.

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Re: Dropbox howto

underscore3d wrote:

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

actually, you do NOT need to keep nautilus. A little farther down the post, you will see that you do not even have to install nautilus to get dropbox working. Just start dropboxd with autostart.sh and you are golden. I don't have nautilus installed on either of my machines with #! and Dropbox.

Michael

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Re: Dropbox howto

michaelramm wrote:
underscore3d wrote:

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

actually, you do NOT need to keep nautilus. A little farther down the post, you will see that you do not even have to install nautilus to get dropbox working. Just start dropboxd with autostart.sh and you are golden. I don't have nautilus installed on either of my machines with #! and Dropbox.

Michael

Interesting, would you mind posting the code that you used to start dropboxd in autostart.sh?

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Re: Dropbox howto

nabilalk wrote:
michaelramm wrote:
underscore3d wrote:

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

actually, you do NOT need to keep nautilus. A little farther down the post, you will see that you do not even have to install nautilus to get dropbox working. Just start dropboxd with autostart.sh and you are golden. I don't have nautilus installed on either of my machines with #! and Dropbox.

Michael

Interesting, would you mind posting the code that you used to start dropboxd in autostart.sh?

Scroll up and it is in this thread.

Michael

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Re: Dropbox howto

michaelramm wrote:
nabilalk wrote:
michaelramm wrote:

actually, you do NOT need to keep nautilus. A little farther down the post, you will see that you do not even have to install nautilus to get dropbox working. Just start dropboxd with autostart.sh and you are golden. I don't have nautilus installed on either of my machines with #! and Dropbox.

Michael

Interesting, would you mind posting the code that you used to start dropboxd in autostart.sh?

Scroll up and it is in this thread.

Michael

Must have missed that, thx.

Add this line ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

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Re: Dropbox howto

Adding an entry in the autostart isn't even necessary, all that does is put the icon in your tray.  I don't have any such dropbox entry and can access Dropbox from within my /home/user/Dropbox directory via my file manager.

I view KDE like I view snow. It looks fun and marvelous, it's fun to play in, but after a while I just want someone to take it all away.

Re: Dropbox howto

The only thing that I am missing from nautilus is the item on the drop down menu that let's me make a public link.  It's not big enough of a deal for me to start using nautilus over pcmanfm.

ploop ploop ploopity ploop ploop ploop

Re: Dropbox howto

corenominal wrote:

4: Hit Alt+F2 and enter the command:

nautilus

If successful, Nautilus will start and the Dropbox icon will appear in your panel's system tray.

when I enter nautilus, my PCMan (file manger starts) and no dropbox icon.

any help?

thanks,

gychang

Re: Dropbox howto

gychang wrote:
corenominal wrote:

4: Hit Alt+F2 and enter the command:

nautilus

If successful, Nautilus will start and the Dropbox icon will appear in your panel's system tray.

when I enter nautilus, my PCMan (file manger starts) and no dropbox icon.

any help?

thanks,

gychang

The tutorial was for Thunar. Did you make the necessary changes to get Dropbox to wok with pcmanfm. I see that one of the posters on here got it to work with pcmanfm. Pm maybe?

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