My mate-weather applet has not worked for a long time. I use Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and I am located in Lima - Peru. Only for the city of Lima it does not work, but the other cities do. That could be happening?
Is there anyway to get my battery panel applet or widget to display percentage?
After dumb fidgeting (removing applet icon repositories) the battery applet is gone and instead it shows a settings symbol but still responds as a battery panel applet? Any help would be great.
The battery indicator is glitchy, at times I have to toggle show icon so that it actually states my batteries current status. Again any help would be great. I'd prefer not to have to reinstall lubuntu.
I have three command applets on a panel. They are displaying correctly but the journal is showing this assertion fail every time an applet refreshes.
This happens on only one of my 19.04 machines. I have 3
command-applet[31803]: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
Even though they display correctly, the panel often becomes unresponsive so that application links stop working.
Something is wrong, but I don't know where to look next.
@DKBose
The command applet is essentially a dynamic panel label. It sits on a desktop panel and displays the output of an associated script. For example I display the IP, the external IP, VPN status. Simple scripts. When the script logic fails the command applet will display whatever error message the script has generated.
The applet is very simple. I doubt there is any involvement of 3D but that is a guess. If I discover otherwise, I'll post.
The applet is MATE standard issue,the github repo is here :
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets.git
@N0rbert
Desktop compositor : Marco (Adaptive)
Log file : syslog
To reproduce:
- rclick panel, choose 'Add to Panel'
- In the 'Add to Panel' dialog, choose 'Command / Shows the output of a command'
- Panel will add a label showing the current time. This is the default command.)
- rclick the new label, choose 'Preferences'
- In the 'Command' field, enter the full path to the script
- In the 'Interval' field, set the number of seconds to put between refreshes
- Close the dialog
Here is a script that puts the current workspace name:
#!/bin/bash
echo $(wmctrl -d | awk '/\*/ {print $10}')
Here are the relevant dconf entries as given by dconf dump /
:
[org/mate/panel/objects/object-19]
locked=true
applet-iid='CommandAppletFactory::CommandApplet'
position=768
toplevel-id='top'
object-type='applet'
panel-right-stick=false
[org/mate/panel/objects/object-19/prefs]
command='/home/stephen/bin/workspace.cur'
And after N0rbert's comment on another panel-related issue from some time ago -- Question recently upvoted by some remarkable coincidence :
apt-cache policy mate-panel python-mate-menu libmate-menu2
mate-panel:
Installed: 1.20.5-1
Candidate: 1.20.5-1
Version table:
*** 1.20.5-1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
python-mate-menu:
Installed: 1.20.2-1
Candidate: 1.20.2-1
Version table:
*** 1.20.2-1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libmate-menu2:
Installed: 1.20.2-1
Candidate: 1.20.2-1
Version table:
*** 1.20.2-1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Due to a bug/glitch, I can't use Gnome Flashback for a while. I am forced to use the new Gnome 3 layout.
There are a few apps (Slack, Skype, Steam, KTorrent, Krusader, ...) that used to be minimized to a "tray icon" in the "task bar" or "notification area" or "indicator applet" or whatever, I am not quite sure about what the names are. It's the little icon somewhere in some bar which you can click to restore the app or show a menu.
In Gnome 3.26 (and later versions), there is no such area by default, and the apps, once minimized, disappear from GUI entirely. I can't see them anywhere, yet their process is running.
I am not going to criticize that decision (it's obviously a bad one :) ) and will skip to the questions:
How am I supposed to open such app?
How can I configure Gnome 3 to have that running apps icons area?
I have seen these (K)StatusNotifierItem/AppInicator Support and TopIcon Plus. Are these official? Or will it stop working in the next release as these workarounds tend to?
I'm newbie here and I've got an error installing applets from Ubuntu Software Center which shows the app's icon in the launcher but it doesn't really install! Internet connection is active but I can't update 'other resources' because it gives me internet connection error after taking a long time loading.
Screenshots: