On Thursday 25 April 2019 16:08:53 E. Liddell wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:22 +0200 > > Uwe Brauer <oub@...> wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 April 2019 02:31:57 Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > > > > Another thing that you can try is to right-click on the system tray > > > itself and unlock panels. Somewhere there is a dialog that allows > > > you to add an item to the system tray. > > > > But only the start icon. > > Maybe we have a misunderstanding here. > > > > Suppose I start tde-networkmanager, say from the command line, it then > > appears in the system tray, where I can access its configuration, that > > is to which wifi net I want to connect. > > > > I want the same for mathpix, I can start it, but it does not appear in > > the system tray, and that is why I can use it (via its shortcuts) but > > not configure it because I cannot access the configuration menu. > > In other words, in whatever Ubuntu's default desktop is these days, > starting the program places an icon in the system tray which provides > right-click or drag-and-drop functionality that goes beyond starting the > program, and which you find useful. > > > > Another oddity: I did a quick search using apt-get, and mathpix > > > doesn't come up. I am running Devuan Jessie, so maybe it's just not > > > in those repositories. > > > > It is not you have to install it via snap (so you have to install snap > > first) once you have installed snap, then > > > > sudo snap install mathpix-snipping-tool > > > > Will install it. > > I checked the developer's website ( mathpix.com ). The application appears > to be closed-source. Snap ( snapcraft.io ) is a distro-hostile "universal" > installer program that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, Thanks for the heads-up on this one. I installed snap just to test this mathpix thingie, but it didn't install any other packages, so no harm done (I hope). I finally got my system running GNU/Linux with all free/libre software (not sure where TDE stands on this ...), so I wouldn't want to keep it on my system. I don't mind testing, though, if it might help others. Bill > and the > developer's site does not offer the Linux version for download in any other > format. Furthermore, the file it does offer is labeled as being for > Ubuntu, which with people like these who probably don't know much about > Linux means they only tested it on one version of the distro, and with > all-default settings. They will not have tested TDE. They will probably > not even have heard of TDE. > > My guess would be that this thing is calling something that's specific to > the default Ubuntu desktop rather than following the XDG specification for > system tray icons (yes, it seems there is one). At this point, I'd install > a third desktop environment (possibly XFCE or Lumina) and see if it works > as expected there. If it doesn't, complain to mathpix.com that their > application doesn't follow standards and hasn't been properly tested. If > it does, well, we've at least narrowed the problem down to "what do these > DEs do that TDE doesn't?" > > E. Liddell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting