On Thursday 25 April 2019 16:08:53 E. Liddell wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:22 +0200
Uwe Brauer oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:
On Thursday 25 April 2019 02:31:57 Uwe Brauer wrote:
Another thing that you can try is to right-click on the system tray itself and unlock panels. Somewhere there is a dialog that allows you to add an item to the system tray.
But only the start icon. Maybe we have a misunderstanding here.
Suppose I start tde-networkmanager, say from the command line, it then appears in the system tray, where I can access its configuration, that is to which wifi net I want to connect.
I want the same for mathpix, I can start it, but it does not appear in the system tray, and that is why I can use it (via its shortcuts) but not configure it because I cannot access the configuration menu.
In other words, in whatever Ubuntu's default desktop is these days, starting the program places an icon in the system tray which provides right-click or drag-and-drop functionality that goes beyond starting the program, and which you find useful.
Another oddity: I did a quick search using apt-get, and mathpix doesn't come up. I am running Devuan Jessie, so maybe it's just not in those repositories.
It is not you have to install it via snap (so you have to install snap first) once you have installed snap, then
sudo snap install mathpix-snipping-tool
Will install it.
I checked the developer's website ( mathpix.com ). The application appears to be closed-source. Snap ( snapcraft.io ) is a distro-hostile "universal" installer program that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole,
Thanks for the heads-up on this one. I installed snap just to test this mathpix thingie, but it didn't install any other packages, so no harm done (I hope). I finally got my system running GNU/Linux with all free/libre software (not sure where TDE stands on this ...), so I wouldn't want to keep it on my system.
I don't mind testing, though, if it might help others.
Bill
and the developer's site does not offer the Linux version for download in any other format. Furthermore, the file it does offer is labeled as being for Ubuntu, which with people like these who probably don't know much about Linux means they only tested it on one version of the distro, and with all-default settings. They will not have tested TDE. They will probably not even have heard of TDE.
My guess would be that this thing is calling something that's specific to the default Ubuntu desktop rather than following the XDG specification for system tray icons (yes, it seems there is one). At this point, I'd install a third desktop environment (possibly XFCE or Lumina) and see if it works as expected there. If it doesn't, complain to mathpix.com that their application doesn't follow standards and hasn't been properly tested. If it does, well, we've at least narrowed the problem down to "what do these DEs do that TDE doesn't?"
E. Liddell
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