hi; there's seem to be a problem here.
On 30 March 2014 04:47, John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com> wrote: > I thought various applet icons - network-manager-applet, Bluetooth, weather, > etc, were meant to appear in the top panel? All I have is a sound icon and > the icon to switch the machine off (which doesn't work). if you have the sound icon and a "turn the machine off" button then you're not running GNOME Shell. it almost looks like you're running the old "GNOME Classic" session shipped by Ubuntu 12.04. on top of that: >> > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling the >> > various components from source. is usually a recipe for troubles. why are you not using your distribution's packages? are you using something like Linux From Scratch? > If the gnome-tweak-tool is required to obtain desktop application icons, how > are users supposed to launch applications? The only method I have available > is <alt-F2> to bring up a command line to launch applications. no, the tweak tool is "needed" to get Nautilus to show the contents of the Desktop folder on your desktop. the applications are available if you go in the Activities overview. you probably want to check the help: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/ ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
