Bug#877638: mate-panel: guake doesn't show in mate-notification area

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: mate-panel
Version: 1.18.4-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

For quite sometime I have not been able to see guake in the
notification area. While it is a pain point to delete the panel and
re-do it again, I finally did it tonight with the hopes of seeing
guake in the notification area. Guake is started the moment I enter a
mate-session. But all that hard work went down the drain as still the
guake icon is not visible in the notification area. If I click slowly
between the notification area 3 dots and qbittorrent, an application
appearing in the notification area, I do get guake right-click menu
through which I could make changes in guake.

FWIW, I did remove the panel and start afresh in the hopes that guake
will show up in the notification area but it doesn't :( .

I did look at -

└─[$] cat /usr/share/mate-panel/ui/notification-area-menu.xml

     1	<menuitem name="Notification Area Help Item" action="SystemTrayHelp" />
     2	<menuitem name="Notification Area About Item" action="SystemTrayAbout" />
     3	

I also looked at guake, mainly at -

┌─[shirish at debian] - [~/.gconf/apps/guake/style] - [10044]
└─[$] cat %gconf.xml

     1	<?xml version="1.0"?>
     2	<gconf>
     3		<entry name="cursor_shape" mtime="1507043654" type="int" value="0"/>
     4		<entry name="cursor_blink_mode" mtime="1507043654" type="int"
value="0"/>
     5	</gconf>

I'm not sure about the entries in %gnonf.xml appearing in
~/.gconf/apps/guake/general hence sharing that, maybe something in
there which might be interfering.

FWIW, I have checked (and double-checked) that guake-preferences has
system tray checked so that it will appear as a tray icon in the
notification area.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-panel depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.26.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.24-17
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.11.16+really1.10.24-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.108-2
ii  libdconf1                                    0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.10-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.54.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.21-1
ii  libice6                                      2:1.0.9-2
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17                         1.18.0-1
ii  libmate-menu2                                1.18.0-2
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1                     1.18.4-2
ii  libmateweather1                              1.18.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.12-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.12-1
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.18-1
ii  libsm6                                       2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-4+b2
ii  libwnck-3-0                                  3.24.1-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.5.1-1
ii  mate-desktop                                 1.18.0-1
ii  mate-menus                                   1.18.0-2
ii  mate-panel-common                            1.18.4-2
ii  mate-polkit                                  1.18.1-1
ii  menu-xdg                                     0.5

mate-panel recommends no packages.

mate-panel suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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