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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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7
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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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How can I get applications to display a system tray icon?
To get Slack and other apps to show a system tray-like icon in Wingpanel you have to update the apps .desktop file and add env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity to the start of the Exec key. Using Slack as an ...
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Keep topbar transparent on maximized windows
The key has been changed in Newer version of Wingpanel like version 2.0.1. Use this instead
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency true
If you want to reset, use
gsettings ...
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Freya Wingpanel taking a long time to load after update
I solved this problem by uninstalling the Parental Control plugin in System Settings:
sudo apt-get remove switchboard-plug-parental-controls
Not sure why.
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How can I fix this strange icon in wingpanel?
Also, you can know which applications are using indicators (other than the elementaryOS defaults) executing on terminal:
dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.canonical.indicator....
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elementary OS 5.0 and Hardware Sensors Indicator
Why doesn't it work?
Elementary OS dropped support for GtkStatusIcon and Ayatana [source] (the two tray APIs most applications use). The reason is probably that they wanted to force developers to ...
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Something wrong with my panel and dock popover
There seems to be a problem with the last update of xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04 or xserver-xorg-legacy-hwe-18.04 with Radeon graphics cards, which break the rendering of boxes and tooltips.
They just ...
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Will the new indicators be released for freya?
The new indicators will most likely be available with the next elementary OS version.
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Can not see Insync Icon/App in Panel or Task Bar
For me installing sni-qt solve this problem:
sudo apt-get install sni-qt
More information:
https://forums.insynchq.com/t/elementary-os-app-icon-in-status-bar-not-showing/1610/2
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Wingpanel not responding (Loki)
We narrowed the issue down to a single indicator, so the temporary fix is to remove it for now:
sudo apt-get remove wingpanel-indicator-power
I'll report back once the bug is resolved, but I otherwise ...
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F.lux indicator on wingpanel
This worked for me...
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybre/elementaryplus
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install elementaryplus
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How to reinstall plank and wingpanel from terminal?
Try in a terminal window
sudo apt install wingpanel plank
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