I have a lot of problems getting this applet to work correctly. In attempting various things I clicked on the Clear Known Applications button, but now I want it to display all applications. There is no "undo" after clicking this button. I removed and replaced the applet, but it still shows only a few applications. In other words, it knew I wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the original settings, but I can't find any config file for it. What is the name and location of the config file for the Notification Area applet? Or if it inside another config file, which one and where is it?
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan johnxj@comcast.net wrote:
In other words, it knew I wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:46:11 +0200 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com dijo:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan johnxj@comcast.net wrote:
In other words, it knew I wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet, not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example, Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
Before clicking on the Clear Known Applications button there was a long list of ~20 tools, with a check box next to each one if I want to hide the tool. Not that the check boxes worked reliably, but they were there. After clicking on the button only three tools are listed, including one that is not hidden, yet still does not appear in the Notification Area.
The whole applet is messed up. App icons appear in the Notification Area even if the Hide box is checked, app icons appear even if not in the original list of known applications, app icons fail to appear even if not checked as hidden, and now I can't get the original list to appear. At the moment I have lost the volume control icon and it is not listed in the list of known applications (after clicking on the Clear Known Applications button). I want to nuke the configuration file for the Notification Area applet and start over from scratch. But where are the configurations for the Notification Area applet? Where does it get its list of known applications?
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:25, John Jason Jordan johnxj@comcast.net wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan johnxj@comcast.net wrote:
In other words, it knew I wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet, not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example, Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
No I understood you just right. I meant the notification area. Maybe you just need to restart the panel. You can try "xfce4-panel -r" from the Alt+F2 run dialog.
If that doesn't work, maybe remove the systray config file[1], logout and login.
[1] ~/.config/xfce4/panel/systray-4.rc
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:38:22 +0200 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com dijo:
I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet, not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example, Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
No I understood you just right. I meant the notification area. Maybe you just need to restart the panel. You can try "xfce4-panel -r" from the Alt+F2 run dialog.
If that doesn't work, maybe remove the systray config file[1], logout and login.
[1] ~/.config/xfce4/panel/systray-4.rc
Thanks for the suggestions, but the notification area is still messed up.
I restarted the panel, but it didn't change anything. Then I removed the notification area applet and removed it from the panel. Then I looked for the configuration file, renamed it, and logged out and back in, and then added the notification area applet back to the panel but still no change.
The only thing is that my file was not systay-4.rc, but rather systray-13213260791.rc. I appended .old to it, but when I added the notification area applet back to the panel no new systray-X.rc file was created. The datestamp on the systray file was back in November, 2011, when I first started using Xfce.
Do you know who the developer(s) of the notification area applet are and how to find them or their website?
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Suvayu Ali