Bug#961332: Fwd: Bug#961332: gnome-flashback: System indicators (volume, bluetooth, ...) do not appear
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:36 PM Timothy Allen wrote: > On 5/6/20 21:02, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote: > > I do know that gnome-flashback is used with i3, but it is not really > > supported. Doesn't i3 have its own indicators or something like that? > > i3 has a "bar" which is a bit like GNOME's mini-commander applet - it > displays output of a command (that by default shows things like battery > charge and system load), but it doesn't have any interactive bits other > than a system tray. In particular, it doesn't include a volume control, > so I really appreciated the one from gnome-flashback. > https://github.com/muktupavels/sound-applet Quick version based on code from gnome-flashback before it was converted to System Indicators applet. -- Alberts Muktupāvels
Bug#961332: Fwd: Bug#961332: gnome-flashback: System indicators (volume, bluetooth, ...) do not appear
On 5/6/20 21:02, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote: > I do know that gnome-flashback is used with i3, but it is not really > supported. Doesn't i3 have its own indicators or something like that? i3 has a "bar" which is a bit like GNOME's mini-commander applet - it displays output of a command (that by default shows things like battery charge and system load), but it doesn't have any interactive bits other than a system tray. In particular, it doesn't include a volume control, so I really appreciated the one from gnome-flashback. > If someone really wants the same indicators that were provided by > gnome-flashback then it should not be hard to create them as separate > applications with one exception - input sources. It would need to use > the D-Bus interface provided by gnome-flashback. I don't actually use the input-sources indicator, but I can imagine that being important to some people. > How do you install / configure your session? Do you use something like > Regolith? No, I studied the files installed by Debian's gnome-flashback package, and figured out what I needed to modify. Tim.
Bug#961332: Fwd: Bug#961332: gnome-flashback: System indicators (volume, bluetooth, ...) do not appear
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:33 PM Timothy Allen wrote: > I feel like this change could have been announced a more loudly, but > thank you for explaining - I've switched from i3's built-in status-bar > to gnome-panel, and now I've got my volume slider back. > I do know that gnome-flashback is used with i3, but it is not really supported. Doesn't i3 have its own indicators or something like that? If someone really wants the same indicators that were provided by gnome-flashback then it should not be hard to create them as separate applications with one exception - input sources. It would need to use the D-Bus interface provided by gnome-flashback. How do you install / configure your session? Do you use something like Regolith? If so I would suggest to open issue to discuss this problem with project maintainers. -- Alberts Muktupāvels
Bug#961332: Fwd: Bug#961332: gnome-flashback: System indicators (volume, bluetooth, ...) do not appear
On 24/5/20 7:46 pm, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote: > Mentioned things where turned into gnome-panel applet - System Indicators. Ah, I see - and if I look in Debian's "NEWS" file, I see version 3.35.2 includes "New system indicators applet for gnome-panel". It wasn't clear to me that "system indicators" included things like the volume control, or that "new applet" implied that the old indicator icons were removed. I feel like this change could have been announced a more loudly, but thank you for explaining - I've switched from i3's built-in status-bar to gnome-panel, and now I've got my volume slider back. Thank you again for all the hard work you do maintaining gnome-flashback!
