26 Apr
2019
26 Apr
'19
1:52 a.m.
On 2019-04-25 18:08:53 E. Liddell wrote:
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
Another reason to avoid snap, Docker and the like is that they typically
include all of the associated libraries that the application uses in a
package, and are intended to be installed into an individual's home
filespace. That's fine for a system with only one user defined, but not so
good if it has multiple users, where it would be better if the application
used the system's shared libraries and installed into e.g. /usr/local/.
Leslie
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.