gnome-sound-applet's icon not visible in the notification area

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Since Oneiric, the volume control applet's icon is no longer visible, even though the applet itself takes space in the notification area and can be clicked to make its menu appear.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.91-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i586
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 6 15:50:00 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-02-07 (941 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, does other icons display fine in the notification area? what desktop do you use?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Only nm-applet appears. None of the others do. This is on GNOME 3 without effectsusing the fallback mode with panel.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what are the "others"? seems like rather an issue with the GNOME systray than one with the gnome system settings dialog

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

That wouldn't explain why nm-applet succesfully appears.

The others should be kerneloops-applet and bluetooth-applet.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

PS: where did I say anything about the system settings dialog?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you opened that bug against "gnome-control-center" which is the system settings dialog component

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gnome-sound-applet
gnome-control-center: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-applet

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is the gnome-sound-applet running?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Yes, it is. Ditto for the Bluetooth applet and all the other applets that don't appear in notification. They positively show up in 'ps'.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you attach your .xsession-errors? are you sure you have a notification area applet configured? does it work with a guest session?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

I am positive that I have one: nm-applet shows in it. No other applet does.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Sadly, yes, it is.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reassigning to gnome-panel, we don't patch the applet code at all to use indicators or similar, it's a classic systray icon, if there is an issue it's on the panel side

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What theme,icon theme do you use? I just tried on precise with a guest session in gnome classic, after adding the systray to the gnome-panel and starting gnome-sound-applet the icon is listed fine in the systray

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Adwaita.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue if you use one of the ubuntu themes? (still trying to figure what's the issue for you). do you have gnome-icon-theme-full installed?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

$ dpkg -l | grep theme | awk {'print $2,$3'}
dmz-cursor-theme 0.4.3
gnome-accessibility-themes 3.3.90.1-0ubuntu1
gnome-icon-theme 3.2.1.2-1ubuntu2
gnome-icon-theme-full 3.2.1.2-1ubuntu2
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.2.2-1
gnome-themes-standard 3.3.90.1-0ubuntu1
gtk2-engines 1:2.20.2-1ubuntu1
gtk2-engines-murrine 0.98.2-0ubuntu1
gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.24.10-0ubuntu4
gtk3-engines-unico 1.0.1-0ubuntu4
hicolor-icon-theme 0.12-1ubuntu1
human-theme 0.39.2
humanity-icon-theme 0.5.3.11
light-themes 0.1.8.29-0ubuntu2
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
sound-theme-freedesktop 0.7-0ubuntu3
ubuntu-mono 0.0.39

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the 'awk' command you added stripped out the first column which has the "installed" information, the screenshots confirms it's not happening with the Ubuntu themes though which is a good indication

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Only packages with "ii" show up in the results. I'm not sure what else you'd hope to gain from adding that.