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

[shirish शिरीष]

in-line :-

On 09/10/2017, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Hi shirish
>

Hi Mike,

> 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.
>

First of all thank you for maintaining mate, it means a lot to people
like me who don't have access to latest fancy hardware.

As far as mate-indicator applet and Guake's presence there it's a
no-go. I am sharing couple of photographs for the same.



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[$] apt-cache policy mate-indicator-applet
                                                            [16:29:05]
mate-indicator-applet:
  Installed: 1.18.0-1
  Candidate: 1.18.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.18.0-1 600
        600 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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