Bug 25062

Summary:	Some applications do not start under Gnome due to systray unavailable
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Muhammad Tailounie <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Muhammad Tailounie 2019-07-06 16:08:54 CEST

Some applications like hplip among others, would fail to start under Gnome DE in Mageia 7 64-bit. The error I get is that no systray detected.

How reproducible:
Try to launch hplip under a fresh installation of Mageia 7 Gnome DE 64-bit. I cannot remember the other applications that also failed.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-07-06 17:56:12 CEST

Gnome no longer has a Systray (alas). Mageia offers an effective substitute by providing (they should already be installed):
- gnome-tweaks
- gnome-shell-extension-topicons
but the latter need to be activated by the user, being not standard Gnome:
"from the Applications menu, run the "Tweaks" application, select "Extensions" in the sidebar, and enable the "Topicons plus" extension. Whilst there, you can also click on the cogwheel icon to change some settings, e.g. the position of the system tray on the top panel."

This should have been in the Release Notes; too late.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23795 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Status: NEW => RESOLVED