7:27 p.m.
I have a lot of problems getting this applet to work correctly. In
attempting various things I clicked on the Clear Known Applications
button, but now I want it to display all applications. There is no
"undo" after clicking this button. I removed and replaced the applet,
but it still shows only a few applications. In other words, it knew I
wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config
file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the
original settings, but I can't find any config file for it. What is the
name and location of the config file for the Notification Area applet?
Or if it inside another config file, which one and where is it?
7:46 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan <johnxj(a)comcast.net> wrote:
In other words, it knew I
wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config
file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the
original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications
use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After
first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
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8:25 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:46:11 +0200
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> dijo:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan
<johnxj(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
> In other words, it knew I
> wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config
> file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the
> original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications
use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After
first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet,
not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons
for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth
manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the
Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example,
Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
Before clicking on the Clear Known Applications button there was a long
list of ~20 tools, with a check box next to each one if I want to hide
the tool. Not that the check boxes worked reliably, but they were
there. After clicking on the button only three tools are listed,
including one that is not hidden, yet still does not appear in the
Notification Area.
The whole applet is messed up. App icons appear in the Notification Area
even if the Hide box is checked, app icons appear even if not in the
original list of known applications, app icons fail to appear even if
not checked as hidden, and now I can't get the original list to appear.
At the moment I have lost the volume control icon and it is not
listed in the list of known applications (after clicking on the Clear
Known Applications button). I want to nuke the configuration file for
the Notification Area applet and start over from scratch. But where are
the configurations for the Notification Area applet? Where does it get
its list of known applications?
8:38 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:25, John Jason Jordan <johnxj(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan <johnxj(a)comcast.net>
>wrote:
>> In other words, it knew I
>> wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config
>> file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the
>> original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
>
>I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications
>use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After
>first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet,
not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons
for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth
manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the
Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example,
Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
No I understood you just right. I meant the notification area. Maybe
you just need to restart the panel. You can try "xfce4-panel -r" from
the Alt+F2 run dialog.
If that doesn't work, maybe remove the systray config file[1], logout and login.
[1] ~/.config/xfce4/panel/systray-4.rc
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
9:22 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:38:22 +0200
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> dijo:
> I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area
applet,
> not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons
> for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager,
> bluetooth manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications
> never use the Notification area at all, whether running or not - for
> example, Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.
No I understood you just right. I meant the notification area. Maybe
you just need to restart the panel. You can try "xfce4-panel -r" from
the Alt+F2 run dialog.
If that doesn't work, maybe remove the systray config file[1], logout
and login.
[1] ~/.config/xfce4/panel/systray-4.rc
Thanks for the suggestions, but the notification area is still messed
up.
I restarted the panel, but it didn't change anything. Then I
removed the notification area applet and removed it from the panel.
Then I looked for the configuration file, renamed it, and logged out and
back in, and then added the notification area applet back to the panel
but still no change.
The only thing is that my file was not systay-4.rc, but rather
systray-13213260791.rc. I appended .old to it, but when I added the
notification area applet back to the panel no new systray-X.rc file was
created. The datestamp on the systray file was back in November, 2011,
when I first started using Xfce.
Do you know who the developer(s) of the notification area applet are
and how to find them or their website?
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