19 Jan
2015
19 Jan
'15
7:32 p.m.
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?
--
The secret of happiness is freedom,
and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
19 Jan
19 Jan
7:42 p.m.
New subject: [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;
--
PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm
7:50 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:42:19 -0800
From: dan(a)homestead-products.com
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On 01/19/2015 11:32 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
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
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;
--
PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm
7:54 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexandre <ac586133(a)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-
--
The secret of happiness is freedom,
and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
8:34 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Curt Howland <Howland(a)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!
--
The secret of happiness is freedom,
and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
20 Jan
20 Jan
1:11 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Curt Howland <Howland(a)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.
--
The secret of happiness is freedom,
and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
19 Jan
19 Jan
7:55 p.m.
New subject: [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.
--
PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm
7:58 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:55:32 -0800
From: dan(a)homestead-products.com
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On 01/19/2015 11:50 AM, Alexandre wrote:
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
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.
7:52 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Dan Youngquist
<dan(a)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-
--
The secret of happiness is freedom,
and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
7:54 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
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.
http://priss.com/20150119_Net_Manager.png
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.
20 Jan
20 Jan
7:37 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] New install, one icon not working
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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