Bug 1135634

Summary:	Notification area not available for interaction
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Suse User <suseino>
Component:	Xfce	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-xfce>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	maurizio.galli
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Suse User 2019-05-20 12:01:41 UTC

In the last 1 month (maybe more) I have been unable to interact with any item appearing in the notification area of the XFCE panel, such as NetworkManager status icon or that of Redshift. Left/Right-clicking on any of the icons simply does nothing.

After updating the system yesterday there is no NetworkManager icon at all and I can't find a way to add it. Also it is not possible to add the notification area explicitly. Looking at the items of the panel it seems to be there as "external". I can still start Redshift and see its icon appear but just like earlier it cannot be interacted with.

I tried uninstalling xfce*openSUSE packages and replacing them with their xfce*upsteream equivalents but that didn't fix anything, so I reverted.

Comment 1 Maurizio Galli 2019-05-20 14:23:37 UTC

Yes it's a bug caused by a patch in our appindicator package. If you use the plugin "status notifier" (recommended) indicators work, however if you rely on "notification area" only, the actions and menus are broken.
I already asked for it to be taken care of

See: 
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132659

and

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/703213

What version of openSUSE are you using please?

Comment 2 Maurizio Galli 2019-05-20 14:24:56 UTC

see comment #1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1132659 ***

Comment 3 Suse User 2019-05-21 19:48:20 UTC

Thanks for confirming and for the tip about "status notifier".
I am using Tumbleweed 32-bit as specified in the bug report.

Forgive me to ask here but while experimenting (switching to *upstream packages and back) I lost my panel and now "Applications" has no favorites or "type to search". How can I restore that?

I also notice that the "Applications" section in the menu which shows up when right clicking on empty desktop area contains nothing.

Comment 4 Suse User 2019-05-21 20:14:01 UTC

And one more thing. I just noticed in dmesg (perhaps related):

[  149.163902] traps: nm-applet[2567] trap int3 ip:b6d43424 sp:bfbb92f0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6000.2[b6d08000+84000]
[  150.334824] traps: ibus-ui-gtk3[2590] trap int3 ip:b6efa424 sp:bfb4a4f0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6000.2[b6ebf000+84000]
[  150.621788] traps: ibus-extension-[2595] trap int3 ip:b70a2424 sp:bfe751a0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6000.2[b7067000+84000]
[  162.787349] traps: goa-daemon[2661] trap int3 ip:b31fa424 sp:bf922350 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6000.2[b31bf000+84000]

I hope that extra info is useful.

Comment 5 Maurizio Galli 2019-05-22 05:21:05 UTC

(In reply to Suse User from comment #3)
> Thanks for confirming and for the tip about "status notifier".
> I am using Tumbleweed 32-bit as specified in the bug report.
> 
> Forgive me to ask here but while experimenting (switching to *upstream
> packages and back) I lost my panel and now "Applications" has no favorites
> or "type to search". How can I restore that?

You can use the small application called "Restore Panel Defaults" in the application menu. It's like a factory reset switch that will restore the panel to the original layout, depending on whether you're using openSUSE Xfce branding or upstream.


> I also notice that the "Applications" section in the menu which shows up
> when right clicking on empty desktop area contains nothing.

installing libgarcon-branding-openSUSE should restore it

Comment 6 Suse User 2019-06-04 09:02:10 UTC

Thank you!