It appears that Ubuntu 18.04 does not have a system tray. Whilst running
"hplip-3.18.4.run" I encountered these error messages:-
RE-STARTING HP_SYSTRAY
----------------------
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
error: Unable to lock /home/ian/.hplip/hp-systray.lock. Is hp-systray
already running?
ian@newton:~/Desktop$ error: No system tray detected on this system.
Unable to start, exiting.
Printing works. Scanning fails with an error message - see attached
screenshot.
Hi srinivas,,
Did a complete re-install of Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit.
Followed your instructions.
It appears that Ubuntu 18.04 does not have a system tray. Whilst running
"hplip-3.18.4.run" I encountered these error messages:-
RE-STARTING HP_SYSTRAY ------- ------- -
-------
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
error: Unable to lock /home/ian/ .hplip/ hp-systray. lock. Is hp-systray ~/Desktop$ error: No system tray detected on this system.
already running?
ian@newton:
Unable to start, exiting.
Printing works. Scanning fails with an error message - see attached
screenshot.
HTH,
Ian