Re: [e-users] system tray nm-applet icon

[Kim W. <ki...@wo...>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:10 +0200, Matthew Morgan <lyt...@gm...> wrote:

>>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Kim Woelders <ki...@wo...> wrote:
>>
>>> > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:11 +0100, Don Harrop <do...@ef...> wrote:
>>> >
>>>
>>>> >> Quoting Kim Woelders <ki...@wo...>:
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>>> >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:52:30 +0100, Jona Schuman
>>>>> >>> <jon...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> >>>> Hello,
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> I'm having an issue that I imagine concerns the system tray.  
>>>>>> Namely,
>>>>>> >>>> the icon for the NetworkManger applet disappears. The applet  
>>>>>> itself
>>>>>> >>>> works fine, it's just invisible unless I click on it to get  
>>>>>> its menu.
>>>>>> >>>> All my other applets don't seem afflicted and nm-applet itself  
>>>>>> works
>>>>>> >>>> fine when I run it in the Gnome panel.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> I'm running 0.16.8.15-1 and network-manager-gnome 0.6.6-4 on  
>>>>>> Debian
>>>>>> >>>> squeeze.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> >>> Yeah, problems like that seem to come and go.
>>>>> >>> Currently I see that problem with pidgin but not with NM (version
>>>>> >>> 0.7.0.99).
>>>>> >>> I guess I should try to figure out if it can be fixed in e16 or  
>>>>> if
>>>>> >>> the apps are just misbehaving.
>>>>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you want more apps to poke at, I tend to see issues with Opera  
>>>> and
>>>> >> occasionally the Screenlets icon not being visible in e16's  
>>>> systray.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Icon drawing becomes problematic when changing icon sizes around a  
>>>> bit
>>>> >> too,
>>>> >> no matter what icons are in there..  Maybe the problem is related?
>>>> >> Turning on "base images" aggravates the issue when changing the  
>>>> icon
>>>> >> sizes too.
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>> > My problems with pidgin seem go away when setting the systray icon  
>>> size to e.g. 16 or 32 in stead of the default 24.
>>> > This might also fix problems with nm-applet.
>>>
>>
>> Just thought I'd confirm that setting icon size to 16 appears to fix
>> all strange behavior with nm-applet on my end. Thanks!
> How do you set the icon size for systray?  I can't seem to find it  
> anywhere.
>
Right click in some systray part, e.g. background or slider, and select Settings...
If the systray background/slider/arrows are all hidden you'll have to use "eesh ibox cfg _ST_".

/Kim