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So I’m gonna try Dropbox to see about keeping some notes and such synced between my computers. It’s supposed to be groovy, and it has software to work on all three major operating systems (Win, Mac, Linux). Since the two machines I want to sync between are Linux, things are already looking up. Naturally Dropbox expects the user to be running Gnome and Nautilus though. Since I don’t use either right now it works a bit different. Yeah, this info is already out there on the intarwebs but, as usual, it took a bit from each of a few different places to make it happen. So here’s what I did to get Dropbox working on Linux Mint with Fluxbox and Thunar.

Step One: go home and grab the binary tarball from dropbox (if 64 bit, try plat=lnx.x86_64), then un-archive it.

Step Two: edit the fluxbox startup to fire up the dropbox daemon

find the line “exec fluxbox”, and before it add

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

(Step Two point Five: If you want to delay the start of Dropbox, see the Fluxbox wiki page about editing the startup file)

Step Three: logout, then log back in. After a few seconds a dialog should pop up to configure everything.

Step Four: make a fake Nautilus (if you don’t have Nautilus installed and don’t want it either)