No applet in tray unless root, Mint / XFCE

Tom_B · April 24, 2015, 6:37am

Hi, I’d be glad of any help.

I am running standard Mint XFCE and Insync 1.27.

I can run Insync from the command line and it is syncing but I am unable to get the applet to appear in the tray as a normal user.

However, this morning after upgrading I accidentally started Insync as root (bad idea, should have sudoed etc) - this showed the applet. Obviously, I don’t want to run Insync as root and so deleted any config files (~/.config/Insync/). Upon restarting as the desired user, its all working I think except I cannot see the applet. This makes me think it is just a permissions problem but I’m not sure where to look to fix it.

Can anyone help?

Kind regards,
Tom

lpugoy · April 27, 2015, 11:12am

@Tom_B Could you try disabling compositing (Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor) then logging out and logging in to see if there’s a difference? What version of Linux Mint are you using?

Tom_B · April 27, 2015, 1:21pm

Hi,

I’m running :
Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.11.8 Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana (Nvidia driver 331)

Switching off compositing made no difference.

I do seem to be syncing files and the command line appears to work fine. Pop-ups appear when file changes are made to the google drive.

No Thunar integration visible and no applet.

It did seem to be working fine when run as root however - maybe its just a permissions issue?

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Cheers
Tom

lpugoy · April 28, 2015, 5:57am

I see. Please try disabling indicator-application-service as well: https://pseudomorph.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/xfce-notification-a/

Tom_B · April 28, 2015, 9:33am

Excellent - disabling the service, logging out and back in again fixed it! Many thanks for your help

Cheers,
Tom

Tom_B · April 28, 2015, 2:36pm

Incidentally, switching compositing back on but disabling the indicator application service also works. However, I still have no Thunar context menu. I do have Thunar-python installed…

Would be nice to have it all working but thanks for fixing applet.

Cheers,
Tom

EDIT : FIXED - not sure whether I just couldn’t see it before, but Thunar plugin now appears to be working since addition of second gdrive account. Apologies if wasted anybodies time.