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njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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WICD (GTK) icon does not appear in the toolbar

I have just installed Arch Linux and have configured wicd for network. While wicd itself is working as expected across reboots (service does start and receives dhcp IP automatically), the icon does not appear in the toolbar (near the date/time, reboot icons etc). I have tried to follow the wiki, the gtk icon is nowhere to be seen. Can someone help how to get around this?

Thanks

ewaller

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Re: WICD (GTK) icon does not appear in the toolbar

Which toolbar?

Kde? i3-bar? Gnome?
How are you starting your desktop environment?
What if you run wicd-client --tray  from a terminal
If it does not work, what (specifically) are the messages in the terminal?

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njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 18

Re: WICD (GTK) icon does not appear in the toolbar

Which toolbar?

Kde? i3-bar? Gnome?
How are you starting your desktop environment?
What if you run wicd-client --tray  from a terminal
If it does not work, what (specifically) are the messages in the terminal?

I'm using GNOME3
I have configured GDM to start at system startup (and wicd too.. using "systemctl enable wicd")
wicd-client --tray does nothing to bring up the icon on the task bar.. on the terminal too it does not throw up any error.. it just seems to be doing something and doesn't return to the prompt too

Last edited by njathan (2014-08-08 06:19:09)

surfatwork

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Registered: 2012-01-05

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Re: WICD (GTK) icon does not appear in the toolbar

Hit Alt-F2 and type in lg to bring up the looking glass. Check if any errors are listed for this applet

njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 18

Re: WICD (GTK) icon does not appear in the toolbar

@ewaller: i now notice some messages upon running wicd-client --tray in terminal (sorry.. for some strange reason i did not see these messages last time )

$ wicd-client --tray
Importing pynotify failed, notifications disabled.
Has notifications support False
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
displaytray True
Done loading.