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

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi shirish

On  Di 03 Okt 2017 19:10:59 CEST, shirish शिरीष wrote:

> 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.
>

My suspicion is that guake does not use X11 embed anymore (which is  
the API provided by the notification area applet), but the Indicators  
API.

Try installing and adding mate-indicator-applet and check if you find  
guake's icon in there.

Mike
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