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


     3

I also looked at guake, mainly at -

┌─[shirish@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.

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

Mike
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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.

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