Good afternoon. I've recently had to reinstall my work laptop, and rather than try to make Windows work again, I was given permission to run Linux.
Debian Wheezy, TDE 14.
Everything installed cleanly, and works. There is only one thing I've found that is a problem, the Network Manager icon in the system tray is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square.
http://priss.com/20150119_Net_Manager.png
That's a screen-grab of my system tray, showing the microscopic icon for Network Manager between the screen size and VLC cone.
I've tried re-adding it, same size. If I run XFCE, the icon shows up just fine.
Suggestions?
On 01/19/2015 11:32 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
Everything installed cleanly, and works. There is only one thing I've found that is a problem, the Network Manager icon in the system tray is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square. [...] I've tried re-adding it, same size. If I run XFCE, the icon shows up just fine.
That's actually Gnome's Network Manager icon, which XFCE uses. For TDE R14 you have to install network-manager-tde, then edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop so it doesn't show up in TDE. Change the line that says:
NotShowIn=KDE; to: NotShowIn=KDE;TDE;
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:42:19 -0800 From: dan@homestead-products.com To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Subject: Re: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On 01/19/2015 11:32 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
Everything installed cleanly, and works. There is only one thing I've found that is a problem, the Network Manager icon in the system tray is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square. [...] I've tried re-adding it, same size. If I run XFCE, the icon shows up just fine.
That's actually Gnome's Network Manager icon, which XFCE uses. For TDE R14 you have to install network-manager-tde, then edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop so it doesn't show up in TDE. Change the line that says:
NotShowIn=KDE;to: NotShowIn=KDE;TDE;
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Hi,
This actually doe not solve the issue for real. TDE is able to use Gnome's applets, but for an unknown reason, it doesn't always work in TDE. I have already seen this issue many times, but after a few minutes, the icon appeared as it should.
-Alexandre
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexandre ac586133@hotmail.com wrote:
This actually doe not solve the issue for real. TDE is able to use Gnome's applets, but for an unknown reason, it doesn't always work in TDE. I have already seen this issue many times, but after a few minutes, the icon appeared as it should.
Well, it's been more than a week, so if it was going to revert to full sized, it should have done so by now.
Curt-
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Curt Howland Howland@priss.com wrote:
Well, it's been more than a week, so if it was going to revert to full sized, it should have done so by now.
Perfect. Full sized, and much better looking interface than the GNOME standard.
Many thanks. TDE for the win!
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Curt Howland Howland@priss.com wrote:
Perfect. Full sized, and much better looking interface than the GNOME standard.
Unfortunately, the VPN connection dialogs all failed, "Error 9" which tells me nothing, unable to edit or build a new one. So back to basic Network-Manager.
And that worked right away.
On 01/19/2015 11:50 AM, Alexandre wrote:
This actually doe not solve the issue for real. TDE is able to use Gnome's applets, but for an unknown reason, it doesn't always work in TDE. I have already seen this issue many times, but after a few minutes, the icon appeared as it should.
Maybe it doesn't work in PCLinuxOS, but so far it's worked on every Debian installation on which I've done it. In one case I left nm-applet showing for some weeks just to see if it would fix itself; it does show up correctly once in a while, but mostly it doesn't.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:55:32 -0800 From: dan@homestead-products.com To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Subject: Re: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On 01/19/2015 11:50 AM, Alexandre wrote:
This actually doe not solve the issue for real. TDE is able to use Gnome's applets, but for an unknown reason, it doesn't always work in TDE. I have already seen this issue many times, but after a few minutes, the icon appeared as it should.
Maybe it doesn't work in PCLinuxOS, but so far it's worked on every Debian installation on which I've done it. In one case I left nm-applet showing for some weeks just to see if it would fix itself; it does show up correctly once in a while, but mostly it doesn't.
Hi,
It was on Ubuntu that it didn't work for me. PCLinuxOS uses its own tools, and not the general nm-applet, so it always works perfectly across every desktop environment used.
-Alexandre
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Dan Youngquist dan@homestead-products.com wrote:
you have to install network-manager-tde, then edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop so it doesn't show up in TDE. Change the line that says:
NotShowIn=KDE;to: NotShowIn=KDE;TDE;
Excellent, thank you. Packaged installed, edit made, I'll let folks know tonight when I have an opportunity to restart the session whether or not it worked.
Curt-
On Monday 19 January 2015, Curt Howland wrote:
... the Network Manager icon in the system tray is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square.
I've seen this too, it comes and goes. Sometimes NM's icon is OK, sometimes it's the box placeholder. Right now, it's showing me the two computer LAN icon. NM always works underneath the broken icon, so the issue has not bothered me much. I'm also running my kicker at 32 pixel height.
I've also had problems with some other systray stuff. XFCE4's power manager, for example, takes up three or four icons worth of space. Pigeon is one of the few non KDE applications that works perfectly. KDE 4 Kopete has never properly animated the icon. There seems to be some new Dbus based messaging system that people are moving to at the cost of normal systray behavior.
On Monday 19 January 2015, Dan Youngquist wrote:
That's actually Gnome's Network Manager icon, which XFCE uses. For TDE R14 you have to install network-manager-tde, then edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop so it doesn't show up in TDE. Change the line that says:
NotShowIn=KDE;to: NotShowIn=KDE;TDE;
I intentionally start nm-applet because it has worked well for me. I look forward to trying the Trinity version of Network Manager.
On Monday 19 January 2015, Curt Howland wrote:
Good afternoon. I've recently had to reinstall my work laptop, and rather than try to make Windows work again, I was given permission to run Linux.
Debian Wheezy, TDE 14.
Everything installed cleanly, and works. There is only one thing I've found that is a problem, the Network Manager icon in the system tray is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square.
http://priss.com/20150119_Net_Manager.png
That's a screen-grab of my system tray, showing the microscopic icon for Network Manager between the screen size and VLC cone.
I've tried re-adding it, same size. If I run XFCE, the icon shows up just fine.
Suggestions?
I would try locating the icon and replacing it with a proper one. Could be as simple as a damaged image file.
Cheers,
Kate
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