How to get Budgie show certain indicator icons?

[swarnendubiswas]

Hi,

I have Ubuntu Gnome 17.04, and have installed Budgie 10.3.1 from ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports. I have got a few app indicators to work, namely Dropbox, Telegram, Variety. However, a few indicators don't show up. For example, the power/battery setting, the network indicator, Skype. Is there any package that needs to be installed for this? Or is there any trick/limitation in getting this to work? Thanks.

[fossfreedom]

power is supplied by a native budgie applet. make sure you have not accidentally removed the status applet. Network is supplied by the system tray applet. Check in your process list. nm-applet must be started with --no-indicator as a parameter otherwise it will not appear. If you see nm-applet by itself then that's a conflict coming from gnome that you will need to resolve. Skype I have never tried but since it's just an app it should work. On 22 May 2017 03:29, Swarnendu Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I have Ubuntu Gnome 17.04, and have installed Budgie 10.3.1 from ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports. I have got a few app indicators to work, namely Dropbox, Telegram, Variety. However, a few indicators don't show up. For example, the power/battery setting, the network indicator, Skype. Is there any package that needs to be installed for this? Or is there any trick/limitation in getting this to work? Thanks. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA8zkC9JSDylJkHN3Q-51KGFnWwd4DvQks5r8PMdgaJpZM4Nh0QI>.

[swarnendubiswas]

Thanks for your suggestions. I have added status applet, I was confused by the name as to what was its purpose. It adds battery and sound indicators.

nm-applet is running but with no parameters. Are you aware of a way by which I can fix it without affecting Gnome?

I have app indicator applet added and have removed system tray applet. But the indicator for Skye v5.2 does not appear.

[fossfreedom]

You have to run the system tray applet for nm-applet to appear. nm-applet --no-indicator must then be run.

Suggest script a startup application. It would use a "only in=budgie" type statement to only run for budgie. See the budgie startup file in /etc/xdg/autostart.

This script would

killall nm-applet
sleep 5
nm-applet --no-indicator

Otherwise you are into recompiling budgie-indicator-applet but reenabling the code that deliberately hides the network indicator.

No idea on Skype. It's not something I run. If I find sometime I will try to investigate.

[swarnendubiswas]

Thanks, adding the system-tray applet and running nm-applet --no-indicator resolves the issue with network indicator. I had removed the system-tray applet since certain articles suggested that the appindicator applet and the system-tray applet do not run side-by-side.

I will work on adding a startup script.

[swarnendubiswas]

Enabling system-tray allows to show Skype as well. Thanks for helping.