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

Alberts Muktupāvels alberts.muktupavels at gmail.com
Sun May 24 00:22:01 BST 2020


On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:33 PM Timothy Allen <st at thristian.org> wrote:

> Recently (and I'm afraid I don't have an exact date, although
> I'm pretty user it was the 3.34 → 3.36 upgrade) gnome-flashback's
> standard system indicators (the volume control, Bluetooth,
> the battery charging indicator, etc.) have stopped appearing in the
> notification area. Other indicators (VLC, Network Manager) appear
> just fine, but the system indicators are missing. This is still
> true after logging out and back in, and after rebooting.
>

Mentioned things where turned into gnome-panel applet - System Indicators.

Full disclosure: I normally use gnome-flashback with the i3
> window manager rather than Metacity, according to the instructions in
> https://zork.net/~st/jottings/gnome-i3.html - although the only
> difference between gnome-flashback's stock
> `gnome-flashback-metacity.session`
> file and mine is that I've swapped `metacity` for
> `i3` and removed `gnome-panel`.


There is nothing wrong with session files. GNOME Flashback simply no longer
provides system tray icons.

Nevertheless, the missing system
> indicators are still missing if I log into a standard "GNOME Flashback
> (Metacity)" session rather than my custom one.
>

Existing users needs to add new applet to panel.

-- 
Alberts Muktupāvels
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