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Dropbox icon missing in Loki
The correct instructions to run are :
env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE='' dropbox start
it worked for me !
The -i option is only necessary the first time to install the daemon, but ...
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Missing icons in the wingpanel
Sadly, with Loki support for system tray icons based on Ayatana Indicators was obsoleted and definitively dropped in Juno.
I found a nice article which gives a workaround (tested working on my PCs).
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15
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Volume icon not showing in Wingpanel
Enter the following in a terminal.
sudo apt-get install indicator-sound
Log out then back in.
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15
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How to display CPU-Temperature in Wingpanel?
There are several applications
Power-Gadget indicator
Download the latest DEB from the official downloadpage and install it manually.
PSensor
Psensor is avaible via elementary OS' repositories, ...
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15
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How can I get applications to display a system tray icon?
elementary OS does not support GtkStatusIcon (commonly referred to as system tray), and will drop support for the Ayatana Indicator API in the next release.
GtkStatusIcon (the old API for apps to ...
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14
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How to install wingpanel-slim or super-wingpanel on elementary 0.3 Freya (amd64)?
Both wingpanel-slim and super-wingpanel were developed and maintained by a developer on Launchpad called ~heathbar. Unfortunately, it looks like he abandonded both projects and did not update them to ...
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Desktop takes forever to load after restart
A solution (or at least temporary workaround) proposed in the bug discussion
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1596377 - is to rename the file:
/etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus....
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11
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How can I get Plank and Wingpanel on both monitors without Mirroring Screens
Plank (Buttom Dockbar):
It's really easy to mirror plank to more than one screen.
Make sure that dconf Editor is installed:sudo apt-get install dconf-tools.
Convert existing dock into dock1 and add ...
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How can I test the new indicators?
Install
Attention! Be careful, this is a test version of a packages, use the virtualization or make a backup for future rollback!
Add ppa:elementary-os/staging and ppa:elementary-os/daily and upgrade ...
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11
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Dropbox icon missing in Loki
Dropbox does not recognize Elementary's desktop interface. Therefore, it does not know which icon set to use.
This script has been designed for Elementary OS and I really can recommend it: https://...
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10
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Customize (to decrease the height of the wingpanel) in Freya
You can make the panel shorter by editing your system's stylesheet. If you haven't modified your system, the file you want to edit is /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/apps.css. You can adjust the ...
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How can I fix this strange icon in wingpanel?
How to find out which application indicator is broken
You can end the process of each application you are used to see wing-panel step by step and see when the broken indicator hides.
In my case it ...
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9
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How to integrate Dropbox with Wingpanel?
There's no point of running that script (that downloads Dropbox again, plus another time for the executable).
Just unset the dropbox application from the startup applications (Parameters=> ...
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Time in wingpanel disappeared
Try re-installing the date-time indicator
sudo apt-get install --reinstall indicator-datetime
If this doesn't work, try editing the /etc/environment file and put this line at the end of it:
LC_ALL="...
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Wingpanel Clock Has Disappeared
I had uninstalled evolution* packages (I thought I didn't need them) and the time indicator dissapeared
I reinstalled it with:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall indicator-datetime
logged out and ...
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Is there any way to auto hide or customize the top panel? (Freya)
Right now, no way. There is a bug report for wingpanel auto hide.
The position of the panel is not configurable.
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How to replace wingpanel's "Applications" text with a icon in Freya
According to elementaryosnewbie's answer on Reddit. Thought it'd
be best to have this on the Elementary OS Stack Exchange. Big thanks
to him for sharing it. If this has already been posted I apologies ...
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Dropbox icon missing in Loki
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop
then replace the exec line to
Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE='' dropbox start
dropbox stop
dropbox start -i
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How can I change the order of icons in Wingpanel?
I'm pretty sure it is not possible without rewriting Wingpanel.
You can propose your wish at the Wingpanel bugtracker, and if the developers like your idea, they may consider implementing it in the ...
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How can I hide some indicator icons?
Well, first of all, that's not a Geary indicator, that's indicator-messages and it has a lot more functionality than just displaying Geary notifications.
To delete it completely from your system, ...
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How to change the first day of week on wingpanel calendar?
Use a locale from a culture where that is the norm.
You can try to make that a sticky setting for your user in the system, by putting something like that in ~/.xsessionrc
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
...
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Spotify icon tray
It seems the new update has removed the old icon tray, more info here
Now I was used to use the icon tray to pause/play forward and rewind musics.
Based on one of the comments on the forum I was ...
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Login slow even though booting is fast
There is already a bug report for this problem, see Bug #1596377.
As suggested in the comments, the following workaround seems to fix the problem for some users:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-...
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How can I reduce the space between icons on wingpanel?
I was able to adjust mine. Not sure if an update will affect it but now that i know where it is at i can reset it back to my liking should an update change it.
First, open files as an ...
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Double Wi-Fi icon after installing wingpanel-indicator-ayatana
Found This on reddit
Delete nm-applet from here:
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop
I didn't delete it, just append .old at the end of the filename
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How can I get Plank and Wingpanel on both monitors without Mirroring Screens
Heath Paddock has since release an application called multiplank that does the configuration automatically.
To install the app from his PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:heathbar/multiplank
sudo apt-...
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Can the elementary clock display seconds?
For elementary OS Juno,
gsettings set io.elementary.desktop.wingpanel.datetime clock-show-seconds true
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Network icon gone missing in wingpanel
The fix was to reinstall libappindicator and reboot.
Here's the link to the answer:
https://askubuntu.com/a/586319/203856
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Can I change the date format in the panel?
It's possible to change date & time format in Wingpanel, but there is no direct UI for this kind of setting.
You can either install and run dconf-editor, navigate to com -> canonical -> ...
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