25 Apr
2019
25 Apr
'19
4:08 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:22 +0200
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> wrote:
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.
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, 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
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. 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.