RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-04 Thread John Frankish
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:44 PM, John Frankish wrote: > > gnome-settings-daemon is running - it seems to be started automatically > by both gnome-shell and gnome-session... > > I don't see where gnome-shell would do that, either explicitly or via DBus- > activation. gnome-session on the other

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:44 PM, John Frankish wrote: > gnome-settings-daemon is running - it seems to be started automatically by > both gnome-shell and gnome-session... I don't see where gnome-shell would do that, either explicitly or via DBus-activation. gnome-session on the other hand does st

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: florian.muell...@gmail.com [mailto:florian.muell...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Florian Müllner > Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2014 17:42 > To: John Frankish > Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: No application or applet icons in gmome

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, John Frankish wrote: > No doubt, but it's odd that without changing anything other than starting > with gnome-shell/gnome-session I see the upower icon with one and not with > the other. Not odd at all actually - gnome-settings-daemon is a required component of a

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread John Frankish
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM, John Frankish wrote: > > As I'm working on a simple linux system I'm trying to keep things as > uncomplicated as possible. > > > > I've been unable to make gdm work > > If your session is not running under GDM, you won't be able to lock the > screen or switch use

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM, John Frankish wrote: > As I'm working on a simple linux system I'm trying to keep things as > uncomplicated as possible. > > I've been unable to make gdm work If your session is not running under GDM, you won't be able to lock the screen or switch users. From your

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread John Frankish
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > gnome-session doesn't appear to be setting $ XDG_MENU_PREFIX, but > perhaps I'm starting gnome-shell incorrectly? > > > > $ cat ~/.xsession > > ... > > XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-" "$DESKTOP" 2>/tmp/wm_errors & ... > > > > Where $DESKTOP=gnome

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread John Frankish
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > > > > > get any application icons on

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-03 Thread John Frankish
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 06:05 +, John Frankish wrote: > > As per dconf-editor, org.gnome.shell.app-folder-categories has only > > ['Utilities', 'Sundry'] as default. Where can I edit this to something > > more sensible without needing to use dconf-editor/gsettings? > > You can't in 3.10, sorry

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-02 Thread Yaa101
Hi John, I had the same thing, getting an empty white/greyish screen when enabling to show icons on the desktop in shell 3.10 - Mageia. For me it helped to set a background wallpaper instead of the default, it did not immediatley work out but after a few tries and a few login/logouts it showed th

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-02 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:05 AM, John Frankish wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activiti

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 06:05 +, John Frankish wrote: > As per dconf-editor, org.gnome.shell.app-folder-categories has only > ['Utilities', 'Sundry'] as default. Where can I edit this to something > more sensible without needing to use dconf-editor/gsettings? You can't in 3.10, sorry. (Use dconf

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-01 Thread John Frankish
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > > > > get any application icons on the deskt

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-01 Thread John Frankish
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > >> > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > >> > > > the various components from source. > >> > > > > >> > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do > >> > > > not get any application i

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-01 Thread drago01
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: >> > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling >> > > > the various components from source. >> > > > >> > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not >> > > > get any application icons on the

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-04-01 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > > > > > get any application icons o

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-31 Thread John Frankish
> > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > > > > get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the > > > > top panel. > > > >

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread John Frankish
> On Mar 30, 2014, at 13:17, "Jasper St. Pierre" > wrote: > > > The desktop mode in nautilus is still supported part of our new Classic > mode. The background shouldn't be turning white: it should be using an > ARGB32 window that's fully transparent. > Ah. I stand corrected. > > > I'm not sure

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mar 30, 2014, at 13:17, "Jasper St. Pierre" wrote: > The desktop mode in nautilus is still supported part of our new Classic mode. > The background shouldn't be turning white: it should be using an ARGB32 > window that's fully transparent. Ah. I stand corrected. > I'm not sure exactly why

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
The desktop mode in nautilus is still supported part of our new Classic mode. The background shouldn't be turning white: it should be using an ARGB32 window that's fully transparent. I'm not sure exactly why gnome-shell shows "All Applications" as blank. Are there any .desktop files in /usr/share/

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mar 30, 2014, at 3:54, John Frankish wrote: > The problem is that the desktop background turns bright white if I do this. This behavior is expected. The code in Nautilus to draw a background image was ripped out around the 3.8 cycle, I believe. I'm surprised it can still draw icons. _

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Yaa101
t; > > -Original Message- > > From: Yaa101 [mailto:yaa...@xs4all.nl] > > Sent: Sunday, 30 March, 2014 03:19 > > To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > > Cc: John Frankish > > Subject: Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3 > > > >

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread John Frankish
: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3 Hi John, Seems the problem is that you don't know hot to use gnome shell no? [0] You have to click the "Activities" button in the left-up corner to show the "Overview", when y

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; there's seem to be a problem here. On 30 March 2014 04:47, John Frankish 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 w

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-30 Thread Carlos Soriano Sánchez
how are users supposed to launch applications? The only method I have > available is to bring up a command line to launch applications. > > John > > > -Original Message- > > From: Yaa101 [mailto:yaa...@xs4all.nl] > > Sent: Sunday, 30 March, 2014 03:19 > &g

RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-29 Thread John Frankish
014 03:19 > To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > Cc: John Frankish > Subject: Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3 > > There are no application icons in the top panel, however there are various > gnome extensions to install an applications menu in the top bar. >

Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

2014-03-29 Thread Yaa101
There are no application icons in the top panel, however there are various gnome extensions to install an applications menu in the top bar. You can find extensions at https://extensions.gnome.org/, you do need a firefox add-on to properly use this website. However a lot of their programmers use a