No icon for volume or typing break after upgrade to lucid

[Hamish Downer]

EDIT: turned out I had removed the 'indicator applet' from the panel in karmic, and the typing break and volume icons now default to the indicator applet rather than the notification area.

ORIGINAL REPORT
I've just upgraded to Lucid and my typing break icon has disappeared (well it's been replaced by a red circle with a line through it). It used to be a slowly increasing vertical bar indicating how long until the typing break would happen. Other than that the typing break stuff still appears to work, it's just that an icon got lost in the upgrade.

I use the standard typing break. To check this on your system, go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and choose the Typing Break tab, and click on 'Lock screen to enforce typing break'.

The volume icon has also disappeared.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 7 12:48:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: light-themes 0.1.5.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: light-themes
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64

[Hamish Downer (mishd)]

On further investigation I found that the problem is the same in all themes

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I don't confirm the issue there though

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you use the indicator applet or the notification area fallback there?

[Hamish Downer (mishd)]

Not quite sure about the last question. The icon I'm talking about lives in the notification area - I've never seen anything about the typing monitor appear using the indicator applet.

(As I understand it the notification area is an area in the top panel. For me it currently contains a Dropbox icon, the network manager icon and the (broken) typing monitor icon. The indicator applet is what makes messages appear on screen temporarily. My answer above might be wrong if I have the wrong names in my head).

In case it helps with tracking down the problem I tried using lsof to see if it had an image file open, but all I could see were a few icon-theme.cache files. I also tried running gnome-typing-monitor from the command line to see if there were any errors but there weren't. And I've checked /var/log/ but not found any references to the typing monitor there.

Any other ideas for what to check? Do we know what the icon file should be so I can check if it exists? Or is it just generated on the fly?

Here is the lsof output filtering out the library files:

$ lsof | grep gnome-typ | grep -v '\.so'
gnome-typ 2777 mish cwd DIR 8,17 4096 2 /
gnome-typ 2777 mish rtd DIR 8,17 4096 2 /
gnome-typ 2777 mish txt REG 8,17 40480 7879 /usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor
gnome-typ 2777 mish DEL REG 0,4 393223 /SYSV00000000
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 8717564 262330 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 7251712 385968 /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 689368 357767 /usr/share/icons/Humanity/icon-theme.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 108696 264189 /usr/share/mime/mime.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 39288 357774 /usr/share/icons/Humanity-Dark/icon-theme.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 8007 315521 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 6299 331480 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-control-center-2.0.mo
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 256324 687618 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 1170770 687619 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_COLLATE
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 9996 687632 /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/icon-theme.cache
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 4360 315518 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 2058 315080 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 12558 315500 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo
gnome-typ 2777 mish mem REG 8,17 54 654175 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_N...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the notification area has been ported to an indicator in lucid and will use the indicator applet if available or fallback to notification-area otherwise, could you make a screenshot showing your gnome-panel icons?

[Hamish Downer (mishd)]

Screenshot of my panel as requested

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you don't have an indicator applet in your configuration could you try to add one?

[Hamish Downer (mishd)]

Ah yes that did it, thank you. The volume bit has also been added by that, which I hadn't noticed was missing.

I think I removed it in karmic as it was just the message applet (envelope icon) and I thought that I was just getting rid of the instant messaging thing - I don't use any instant messaging (well, I use irssi on a server but that doesn't link to the panel).

So I'm not sure if it counts as some sort of bug as it won't affect new installs or upgrades where the default panel was left alone. But I imagine there are a few folk who would have made the same choice as me without realising the full implications.

So I'll let you choose whether to close it or if it is worth someone looking at a way to avoid the problem I had. At least this report is here so that google can help people. I'll add the volume thing to the title to help people find it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the indicator applet will be added back on upgrade to lucid, the fallback to the notification icon should also be working

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Travis, could you check if the fallback is work or not there and if it's not why?

[Broomer68 (jbezemer)]

I think the fallback option displays an unknown/invalid icon. (or in case of sound, no icon at all.

[Travis B. Hartwell (nafai)]

I can reproduce the situation the bug reporter describes (indicator applet removed from panel in Karmic, gnome typing monitor enabled, and then upgrade to Lucid, no icon shown.

The failback is working in so much that a status icon is shown because there is no indicator applet, but an incorrect icon is shown. Will continue to investigate the cause and a potential fix.

[jgjoy (freyjoy)]

Fallback icon now appears for me for the 'typing break' indicator (instead of the 'no icon found' symbol (as in attachment #7)) by deleting indicator applet and session and then re-adding them .

[Ryan Li (ryanli)]

I removed the indicator applet and typing break is supposed to fall back to notification area.
However, under all icon themes of mine, the icon is shown as "icon unavailable", as attached.

This seriously affects the functionality of typing break, since no warning is given. Although the modification in lucid to adapt to indicator applet is already a downgrade indeed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That configuration dialog is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, feel free to open new bugs about other issues you might find though