Dropbox Monochrome Icons As A .deb Or PPA

T. Scott Barnes maintains a package in his PPA called "monochrome-icons-extra" which comes with monochrome Ubuntu-mono, Humanity, and Elementary icons for Dropbox, along with a few other mono icons.

To add the PPA, use the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsbarnes/misc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install monochrome-icons-extra

Alternatively simply download this DEB file (but you won't receive any updates).

The icons no longer have to be manually copied into the ~/.dropbox-dist folder so if you upgrade Dropbox you will no longer lose the mono icons.

Important: the icons only work with the latest Dropbox experimental build which you can download from the Dropbox forum. To install the latest experimental Dropbox, run the following commands in a terminal:

32bit:

dropbox stop
cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.107.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.107.tar.gz

64bit:

dropbox stop
cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.107.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.107.tar.gz

The above URLs will change when a new Dropbox version will be released on the forum so check out the latest version on the forum. There is also an update script which automatically installs all the new Dropbox versions.

DockBarX Monochrome Themes (Mono-Light And Mono-Dark)

If you want to go completely mono on your panel, Jan-Christoph Borchardt created 2 great mono themes for DockBarX: Mono-Dark and Mono-Light as well as a Minimal theme - which you can see in the screenshot below:

To install the themes, you'll need to get them via BZR. To make that easy for you, the below commands will install bzr, get the themes and move them to the right folder - ready to be used:

sudo apt-get install bzr
cd && bzr get lp:~jancborchardt/dockbar/minimal-mono-themes 
mv minimal-mono-themes/M*.tar.gz ~/.dockbarx/themes/
rm -r minimal-mono-themes/

Then go to Applications > Accessories > DockBarX Preference and try out the new themes.

Thanks to Jan-Christoph Borchardt for the tip and screenshot!