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When one sees this "banned" icon in the system tray:

system tray screenshot

How does one determine which program's icon failed to load? Hovering over it fails to do so. Clicking on it drops down a blank area.

James Bowery
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  • it misses its icon, that's all :) – patrick Aug 09 '16 at 06:47
  • How do you remove it? What exactly you mean by screw up? –  Aug 09 '16 at 06:58
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    it's a process that can't find its indicator icon (or (I believe) got messed up by a race condition). In Xfce that could be Dropbox I know (in which case you could fix it by doing dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start – Zanna Aug 09 '16 at 09:14
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    This icon typically appears if there's a package management issue. Could you please open a terminal, type and run the command sudo apt-get install -f and [edit] your question to include its output? Please post text files and program output listings as text, not as images (see How do I save terminal output to a file?). Thanks. – David Foerster Aug 09 '16 at 09:27
  • I don't know why the drop-down menu appears empty though. – David Foerster Aug 09 '16 at 09:29
  • # apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. – James Bowery Aug 09 '16 at 12:56
  • Zanna's solution dropbox stop && dbus-launch dropbox start worked. How can I prevent the race condition? How could I have looked up the meaning of the "banned" icon? Is there an xfce4 document somewhere that tells about stuff like this? Also, when "mystery" icons appear that don't say anything when you hover over them, where does one look in the system for what they are? Should that be a new question for the community? – James Bowery Aug 09 '16 at 13:00
  • If it's dropbox, then this question is a duplicate. The icon is just the one that is displayed if the real icon for any program could not be loaded – Zanna Aug 10 '16 at 06:56

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