{"id":1409,"date":"2013-08-20T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2024-04-20T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T08:36:37","slug":"install-dropbox-plugin-for-thunar-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/install-dropbox-plugin-for-thunar-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Dropbox Plugin for Thunar in Ubuntu XFCE Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you how to integrate Dropbox into Thunar file manager by installing a plugin if you&#8217;re using XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a PPA repository for (X)Ubuntu 13.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint Xfce. So it easy to get the dropbox work with the Thunar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thunar-dropbox-plugin.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1410\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thunar-dropbox-plugin.jpeg\" alt=\"Thunar Dropbox plugin\" width=\"468\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thunar-dropbox-plugin.jpeg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thunar-dropbox-plugin-300x205.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Objectives:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install Dropbox integration with Thunar via PPA<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2024: For all current Ubuntu releases, run the dropbox plugin is available in system repository. Just launch &#8220;terminal&#8221; and run command <code>sudo apt install thunar-dropbox-plugin<\/code> to install, or see <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/install-dropbox-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this tutorial<\/a> instead for step by step guide.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To get started, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16\/other-stuff<\/pre>\n<p>After that, you can install the Dropbox plugin for Thunar:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install thunar-dropbox-plugin<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, restart the file manager to get it work. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you how to integrate Dropbox into Thunar file manager by installing a plugin if you&#8217;re using XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu. There&#8217;s a PPA repository for (X)Ubuntu 13.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint Xfce. So it easy to get the dropbox work with the Thunar. Objectives: Install Dropbox integration with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[506,507],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xfce","tag-dropbox-integration-with-thunar","tag-dropbox-plugin-for-thunar"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}