sway: Dropbox daemon errors under Sway

Hello!

I’m new to sway, but I’m finding it to be utterly fantastic. Thus far, I’ve only hit one challenge: a tiny red frowny-face at the corner of my screen any time the Dropbox daemon is running.

The daemon is, in fact, working – as in, Dropbox is running, files are syncing. However, it appears to be erroring trying to draw icons. From Sway debug output, I see this:

2019-05-26 12:04:14 - [sway/desktop/transaction.c:280] Applying transaction 0xed51c0
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/host.c:24] Registering Status Notifier Item ':1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006'
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 IconPixmap: No such property “IconPixmap”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 AttentionIconPixmap: No such property “AttentionIconPixmap”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 ItemIsMenu: No such property “ItemIsMenu”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 IconPixmap: No such property “IconPixmap”

Looking at #3249, I had expected Dropbox would “just work.” The icon does not appear at all, and that’s fine with me – I have other tools to learn about Dropbox’s status, I just need it running.

I’m running Sway on Fedora 30, and building it myself from current master – which means it’s entirely possible I’m building it incorrectly.

I’d love advice on how to proceed. Have I built sway incorrectly? Is Dropbox just misbehaving? Is there any other detail I can provide to help debug? Please let me know!

Such details as I have right now: Sway Version:

$ swaymsg -t get_version
sway version 1.1-rc1-15-ge92ac7d5 (May 25 2019, branch 'master')

Build configuration

The Meson build system
Version: 0.50.1
Source dir: /home/gastove/Code/open-source/sway
Build dir: /home/gastove/Code/open-source/sway/build
Build type: native build
Project name: sway
Project version: 1.0
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 9.1.1 "cc (GCC) 9.1.1 20190503 (Red Hat 9.1.1-1)")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Dependency json-c found: YES (cached)
Dependency libpcre found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-server found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-client found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-cursor found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-egl found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-protocols found: YES (cached)
Dependency xkbcommon found: YES (cached)
Dependency cairo found: YES (cached)
Dependency pango found: YES (cached)
Dependency pangocairo found: YES (cached)
Dependency gdk-pixbuf-2.0 found: YES (cached)
Dependency pixman-1 found: YES (cached)
Dependency libevdev found: YES (cached)
Dependency libinput found: YES (cached)
Dependency libsystemd found: YES (cached)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.6.1)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.14.4)
Dependency libelogind found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Dependency xcb found: YES (cached)
Library m found: YES
Library rt found: YES
Program git found: YES (/usr/bin/git)
Subproject directory not found and wlroots.wrap file not found
Subproject  subprojects/wlroots is buildable: NO (disabling)
Dependency wlroots found: YES (cached)
Fetching value of define "WLR_HAS_XWAYLAND" with dependency wlroots: 1
Dependency scdoc found: YES (cached)
Program /usr/bin/scdoc found: YES (/usr/bin/scdoc)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Configuring config.h using configuration
Program wayland-scanner found: YES (/usr/bin/wayland-scanner)
Configuring config using configuration
Configuring 00-defaults using configuration
Message:
Features:
xwayland: true
gdk-pixbuf: true
systemd: true
elogind: false
tray: true
man-pages: true

Build targets in project: 17
Found ninja-1.9.0 at /usr/bin/ninja

Sway Bar Configuration Here’s the MWE bar configuration I’ve been debugging with.

bar {
    position bottom
    status_command while date +'%Y-%m-%d %l:%M:%S %p'; do sleep 1; done
}

Thanks very much!