On Wednesday 25 Kislev 5772 14:00:24 kde-linux-requ...@kde.org wrote: > > After a failed attempt to change over my system to 64 bit and restoring, > > I have problems getting plasma to reshow after rebooting the restored > > system. My login was the only one exercised on the errant system. Going > > to another login which worked fine, then going to mine got the desktop > > back. I had to replace some of the icons, applets, the panel, etc., but > > it is fine. > > > > > > > > However, certain icons that were shown on the system tray no longer > > show. Kmail and qjackctl are indeed running but the icons are not there. > > The little NUT monitor is a x-windows (GTK?) object that also went to > > the tray and the app's window could be toggled from there. > > > > > > > > How to get them back? > > FWIW, it's generally useful to give what kde version you're talking > about, since plasma among other things is still under intense development > and there's often not so small changes between 4.x versions, and not so > small bug appearances and fixes in 4.x.y versions altho it's only the 4.x > versions that are supposed to have major feature changes. > > Meanwhile, I'm running 4.7.90 here. That's 4.8-beta2. But the tray > behavior is I think unchanged from 4.7, and IIRC 4.6 was similar, but I > think there were some changes between 4.5. and 4.6, or it might have been > between 4.6 and 4.7... > > Anyway, the below describes the UI as I have it here on 4.7.90 and I'm > guessing the following is what you're after. > > 1) Context-click (normally right-click) on the tray -- careful to avoid > clicking an icon -- and select system tray settings. > > 2) In the setting dialog, click the Entries icon, and you should see a > list of all the detected apps that have a tray icon, with a visibility > selector beside each. > ********
kmail, qjackctl and NUT will not appear on this list, even though they used to show. I have upgraded to 4.7.4, no change. There is a mail notifier if someone can figure out how to use it :-) > ******** > > Of course, apps only appear there if plasma has seen them try to register > a tray icon. If for some reason plasma isn't seeing the tray icon > registrations, it won't list the apps for you to set to always visible. > =:^( I don't know what to tell you if that's the case, except that if > it's not listed there, something's broken deeper in the innards and > plasma isn't seeing it register the tray icon in the first place. > > Oh, and for the apps where it's an option (as it is for kmail I think, no > clue about the others you mentioned), be sure they're set to have a tray > icon. =:^/ KMail and qjackctl have those options set. NUT monitor is outside of KDE, a generic tray item with no options at all. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
