gnome-typing-monitor shows always broken icon in notification area

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff)]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I just installed Lucid beta1. I have gnome typing monitor configured to interrupt me every our for a typing break. In Lucid, it always show a broken icon in notification area (black screen with red "forbidden" sign over it).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: abe35884650c6355b5aed2e790b86dde
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Mon Mar 22 03:07:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.29.92-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you please post a screenshot of the issue? Which icon theme are you using?

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff) (kkapp)]

Here's a screenshot.

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff) (kkapp)]

I've never changed "icon theme". Can you help me determine which one is used on my box?

[gil (gilbert-laycock)]

I get the same symptoms. I've tried switching themes, switching icon theme, and I've tried using gnome-shell. In all cases, if typing break is enabled, it appears in the notification area as the "broken" icon.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue in a guest session? do you get a such issues with other icons? do you have any error in .xsession-errors?

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff) (kkapp)]

1. No, during guest session the icon for gnome-type-monitor looks fine. Also, everything looks very different with black window decorations and such. Switching my main session to Ambience theme didn't help.

2. No, I have yet to face such a problem with any other icon.

3. .xsession-errors has a lot of messages. Most of them are not relevant but these may be:

(gnome-panel:1790): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon: assertion `GTK_IS_ICON_THEME (icon_theme)' failed
sys:1: GtkWarning: gtk_container_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

go you have .gtkrc themes? do you use gnome? is gnome-settings-daemon running?

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff) (kkapp)]

1) There's no ~/.gtkrc if this is what you mean.
2) Yes.
3) Yes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, I don't know then, to debug by somebody having the issue

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff) (kkapp)]

It turned out this has everything to do with indicator applet vs. notification area duality in Lucid. So the way to see the bug is:

1) Remove indicator applet from gnome-panel
2) Add notification area to gnome-panel (only if it's not already there)

gnome-typing-monitor shows the correct icon in indicator and fails to in notification area. This should be trivial to fix because everything worked ok in Karmic.

[Ryan Li (ryanli)]

Yes, I can confirm that it works in indicator applet, and if I remove the indicator-application package, the icon is shown as a broken image.