Disable dropbox icon in i3status

answered 2014-12-15 08:42:56 +0000

Adaephon
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The tray icons are handled by i3bar and have nothing do do with i3status. (i3status only creates text status messages).

You can disable all tray icons by setting tray_output none in the bar{} section(s) of your i3 configuration (see section "Tray Output" in the User's Guide)

bar {
    tray_output none
}

If you want to disable just the Dropbox icon there are two ways, that depend on your preferences and are not really i3 specific:

1. You want Dropbox to run but do not like the icon: This can only be done from within Dropbox settings, see if there is an option for that.
2. You do not care about Dropbox at all: Do not run Dropbox. If it is started from within the i3 configuration, remove the corresponding exec statement. Else you will have to go looking from where it is being started.