Re: [Workrave-user] No tray icon, no Skip or Postpone buttons, and window disappears on closing Preferences.

[<ivw...@tr...>]

Hello,

Just realised I sent this message to Rob Caelers's personal address rather than to the mailing list.  Here it is aagain properly. 

Getting back to you after rathera long time, there is a reason for it. I'm fairly new to Linux and had just ordered a Linux for Beginners book, and decided to leave this until I'd had a go at that and had more idea what all the things you were saying about packages meant.

Well, armed with slightly more idea what I'm doing, I've now uninstalled Workrave and reinstalled it from the Launchpad page you mentioned (the first time, I'd just installed it from the Ubuntu Software Centre). The same problem is still happening. What's "gsettings"? Iis it a file, a program, or what is it? And do you have any idea how to fix it, please?

Incidedentally, once the progream has gone into its invisible phase (all windows closed and no tray icon), Stop Process won't turn it off, only End Process or Kill Process. I don't know if that's significant.

Thans,
A. B.




Rob Caelers <ro...@kr...> wrote :Hi.

Did you compile Workrave yourself?
Sounds as if Workrave cannot save it’s settings.
By default, Workrave uses gsettings to save its settings.
gsettings requires schema files to be installed in the right location, otherwise saving settings doesn’t work.

If it is Trusty based, you can try to install Workrave from https://launchpad.net/~rob-caelers/+archive/ubuntu/workrave?field.series_filter=trusty

Kind regards,
Rob

> On 20 Jan 2018, at 19:49, ivw...@tr... wrote:
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> I used Workrave for years under Windows Vista and it was very useful. When Microsoft stopped supporting Vista I switched to Linux. Recently it occurred to me to see if I could get Workrave again.
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> I installed it but there is no system tray icon, although I know it's running because it puts up the notifications. Also the notifications don't have Skip or Postpone buttons, even though I selected them in Preferences. Also, if I bring up Preferences, the tiny window (with the timers) disappears when I close the preferences window, so after that (since there's no tray icon) I can't get at Workrave's controls unless I forcibly end the program using System Monitor and then start again.
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> I'm using Zorin OS 9 (a variant of Ubuntu, possibly Ubuntu Trusty, at least some things in the update window sometimes mention the word "Trusty") and, I think, the Gnome desktop environment - sorry, I'm a bit new to Linux. What's the equivalent of Windows's System Information window, do you know?
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> Would appreciate some help with getting the wretched thing to work, please! It's a very handy program if only it'll work.
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