Bug#961332: Fwd: Bug#961332: gnome-flashback: System indicators (volume, bluetooth, ...) do not appear

[Timothy Allen]

On 5/6/20 21:02, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
> I do know that gnome-flashback is used with i3, but it is not really
> supported. Doesn't i3 have its own indicators or something like that?

i3 has a "bar" which is a bit like GNOME's mini-commander applet - it
displays output of a command (that by default shows things like battery
charge and system load), but it doesn't have any interactive bits other
than a system tray. In particular, it doesn't include a volume control,
so I really appreciated the one from gnome-flashback.

> If someone really wants the same indicators that were provided by
> gnome-flashback then it should not be hard to create them as separate
> applications with one exception - input sources. It would need to use
> the D-Bus interface provided by gnome-flashback.

I don't actually use the input-sources indicator, but I can imagine that
being important to some people.

> How do you install / configure your session? Do you use something like
> Regolith?

No, I studied the files installed by Debian's gnome-flashback package,
and figured out what I needed to modify.


Tim.