hi, after login i got a message that an error occurred to notification area applet and there were two options, delete the applet configuration and don’t delete. i selected “don’t delete” and rebooted, hoping the error was just for that session, but after rebooting the message prompted again and then i clicked on the “delete” button. now this applet is missing from the applets list when right clicking to panel and then “add to panel…”. i reinstalled the gnome-applets package but no results.
any hints how to get this applet back?
still looking for a solution. maybe i should reinstall some other packages, not just gnome-applets (not sure if notification area applet is included there). the point is that i don’t want to reinstall opensuse and everything else from scratch
Hi
Have you right-clicked on the panel and then add, scroll down the list
and add it back (notification area).
Have you added and application recently in the startup which may be
causing the failure, if so delete this from the startup.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 1 day 20:15, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22, 0.16
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.29
like i sad in the first post the notification area applet is missing when i right to the panel and then select “add to panel”. seems like it has been deleted.
yes i have added fusion-icon to startup (which places an icon on the notification area when starts). do you think that’s what caused the error. anyway the problem now is getting back this applet, how do i reinstall it, or if it hasn’t been removed, how do i get it back on the applets list when i right click on the panel and add to panel?
i also had nm-applet (network applet) added on startup, which prompts this message “Enter password for default keyring to unlock” when connecting to wep networks, anyway the problem now is notification applet has gone, so neither nm-applet or fusion icon is showing on the taskbar anymore… help
Hi
Have you resized or locked the notification area, this can sometimes
hide them. For the nm-applet, check in the Control
Center->System->Sessions, there should be an entry for 'Network
Manager, if not, the following are the settings;
Name: Network Manager
Command: nm-applet --sm-disable
Comment: Control your network connections
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 12:19, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.15, 0.11
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.29
hi malcolmlewis, i think you have misunderstood me sorry for not being clear. the notification area applet seems to have been deleted/uninstalled, it is no longer listed in the applets list when i right click to the panel and click add to panel after the error/crash occurred. the error message was something like this:
“An error has occurred to GNOME notification area applet…
…do you want to delete its configuration?”
there were 2 buttons, “don’t delete” and “delete”. First i clicked on “don’t delete” but after rebooting the message prompted again and then i clicked on “delete” button.
now my question is how do i get back or reinstall or restore this applet, there must be a way to get it back except reinstalling the whole system?
Hi
Logout of the GUI and press ctrl+alt+F1 to get to a console login. Try
with the force option --force or -f then exit the console session with
the command exit.
ctrl+alt+F7 will get you back to the GUI login
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 14:41, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.40, 0.34
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.29
but how do i connect to the internet when i am in console mode (ctrl+alt+f1) to download the package. i’m using a wep encrypted wireless connection.
also i have noticed that when running “sudo zypper install gnome-panel”, right when showing the error it creates this file:
/usr/lib/bonobo/server/GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet.server;499720e3
(in every retry it creates a new similar file with different numbers in the filename)
i told you earlier about the error message i got:
now i think i remember that the configuration file that the message was referring to is this GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet.server file.
thanks for the help so far anyway