Dropbox howto (Page 3 of 4)

So I finally had a crack at this today. Modified the wiki howto slightly to setup with pcmanfm and all is well. Dropbox is pretty sweet

^ I just meant that I modified it for myself but I'll go in and mod the wiki as well   A note explaining both alternatives would be best I think.

^ done

Thank you for the info corenominal!
I can now run Dropbox "and" keep using Pcmanfm.

I like dropbox and it's must have

So, if I installed dropbox the way of the wiki only AFTER realizing that this post had been updated (so I installed nautilus), does that mean I can get rid of nautilus?

Hmm... Dropbox is not autostarted in my system – the icon just briefly blinks and dies out. This is what I get trying to launch Dropbox from a terminal:

piraja@narskupaukku:~$ dropbox start &
[1] 4583
piraja@narskupaukku:~$ Starting Dropbox...Done!
The program 'dropbox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this connection)'.
  (Details: serial 637 error_code 14 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
dropbox: ../../src/xcb_io.c:242: process_responses: Assertion `(((long) (dpy->last_request_read) - (long) (dpy->request)) <= 0)' failed.

[1]+  Done                    dropbox start
piraja@narskupaukku:~$

Just wanted to mention this – should probably see if there already is a bug report about it.

[EDIT, the next morning:] On the next reboot, the icon appeared in Tint2's system tray and a pop-up window was opened for Dropbox set-up. So now it suddenly works as it should. (Yes, I did reboot already yesterday, after installing the app.)

[2nd Ed.] I'm not the only one here who's experienced this, as it seems.

Last edited by Piraja (2009-09-18 06:13:54)

I never use smilies, but there are exceptions that prove the rule
Now playing: Last.fm

??? What's this fuss all about?

CURLFTPFS

#!/bin/sh
sudo apt-get install curlftpfs
sudo curlftpfs myhost.domain.com ~/ftpfolder/ -o user=myuser:mypass
pcmanfm ~/ftpfolder/

SCRIPT

#!/bin/sh
HOST='host.domain.com'
USER='myuser'
PASSWD='mypass'
FILE=`zenity --file-selection --title="share file"`
BASENAME=`basename $FILE`

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd myShare
put $FILE $BASENAME
quit
END_SCRIPT

Last edited by lordkrandel (2009-10-23 18:06:27)

Is the "copy public link" supposed to work with Openbox/PCManFM?  There doesn't seem to be a dropbox entry in the right-click menu when you're in the public dropbox folder.

Prompted by finding the Dropbox install script in Statler (which worked beautifully), I want to install it on my regular #!9.04 box too and found this thread and the wiki article. Hope you don't mind a couple of small questions:

Shouldn't the $@ be better quoted, in case it gets passed a filename with spaces? ie:

#!/bin/bash
exec thunar "$@"
exit 0

Using the method in the wiki Nautilus isn't installed at all is it? Isn't that gconf stuff now redundant? Moreover, if someone does deliberately install it at some later point, mightn't those changes to Nautilus's default behaviour cause some confusion for them?

Dropbox does look very useful btw

^Yes, I've just noticed that Dropbox on Statler seems to behave differently from on 9.04, even though it's supposed to be the same 0.7.110 version.

The Statler install script doesn't make that fake-nautilus thing in the wiki, and it still seems to work fine, on Openbox anyway. (It doesn't do that dbmakefakelib.py stuff from your link either - maybe that's only needed for xfce?.) On 9.04, though, without the fake-nautilus script links to files from the Dropbox system tray icon don't work. You definitely need the quotes round that "$@" btw.

Another difference is that the tool-tip info that pops up when you hover the mouse over the icon in Statler doesn't happen in 9.04.

Whatever, Dropbox seems to be working fine on both systems.

I've written this post where i describe thunar-dropbox, the same tool of nautilus-dropbox, link i've also asked to the mainteiner of this application if he could create a plugin for pcmanfm maybe

Last edited by toketin (2010-09-09 10:38:04)