Bugzilla – Bug 1135634
Notification area not available for interaction
Last modified: 2019-06-04 09:02:10 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.
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?
see comment #1 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1132659 ***
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.
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.
(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
Thank you!