gnome-typing-monitor icon is never displayed

thank you for your bug report, does it work in a guest session? do you have an indicator applet to your configuration?

I normally don't run with a guest account, so I created one. No it does NOT work with a guest account.

If I bring up the indicator applet (about) it says: 0.3.6

Right now that area (indicator applet) just has a speaker and an envelope (chat, mail, broadcasts)

Wayno

you don't need to run a guest session if gdm-guest-session is installed you have the option in the indicator-session menu (the button with a power sign in the right screen corner)

No it does NOT show up if you use a guest session as indicated above.

Wayno

WORKAROUND:

It is weird, but the binary from Karmic (GNOME 2.28) works without any problems.
You can get it from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnome-control-center.
(Download the .deb file and open it with Archive Manager).

This affects me aswell. The icon came up in karmic, but not in lucid. I get a 'broken' icon. It's a white box with a black filling (like a monitor) with a red circle with a strke though in place.

I can click on the icon and get to the preferences, it's just not displayed as normal

On a fresh account it works without any problems.
The directory .gconf/apps/panel was causing problems.
Removing it fixed everything.

I attach the original copy of the directory (the one containing buggy configuration).

I added a new user via System/Administration/Users and Groups

It wasn't pretty (see newuser.png attached) -- I got a green background, with a few icons on the desktop, and 3 toolbars:

top, bottom, right side.

And an error when I tried to logout. logout.png

Ouch!

Wayno

looks like I need another entry to show the error screen I got when I tried to logout. the userid, fwiw is: 1002

Wayno

Does anyone have a workable solution or workaround? Nothing I've tried, works.

Here's what happened when I tried to revert back to the old version of gnome-control-center:

I downloaded the package

-rw-r--r-- 1 nwayno nwayno 372674 2010-05-19 19:10 gnome-control-center_2.28.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

and tried to install it. Got an error (see attached screen shot)

then I tried to remove it:

nwayno@Phoenix:~$ sudo dpkg --purge gnome-control-center
[sudo] password for nwayno:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of gnome-control-center:
 gnome-panel depends on gnome-control-center (>= 1:2.8.2-3).
dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-control-center

so yeah I tried this almost 6 weeks ago.

unless there is a way to force remove it I don't know about.....

The remark about using the archive manager to open a .deb file, makes no sense at all to me.

Basically a deadly embrace situation.

Wayno

Fixed!

Much easier solution here:

http://pkill-9.com/wordpress/?p=283

Wayno

This has been annoying me also since the upgrade to Lucid. It does not affect Guest or other users on the same machine.

For me the simplest fix was to remove (or rename, in case you need to revert) ~/.gconf/apps/panel. The downside is then losing all the other shortcut icons I have placed on the panel over time - but that is easy enough to restore - probably needed a cleaup anyhow. I did this after exiting from the X session and logging in on the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1).

All looks good again now.

Thanks for the hint.

Graham

For me, if I removed indicator-applet, and use the Notification Area to store the notification icons, the icon would be shown as an invalid red cross.
For your information, I use a customised Tango icon set.

Bug duplicates (at least in 64 bit) Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installed: 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2

Same workaround (get the 9.10 typing monitor) fixes the issue.

Resetting to New as the information requested seems to have been provided

typing break has been deprecated in GNOME3, closing that bug

Is there a follow-up packet that replaces typin-break? I know of rsibreak which is quite buggy in 14.04 and workrave, which works, but the indicator icon there is not visible in unity

rsibreak:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsibreak/+bug/1358849
workrave:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/workrave/+bug/1176620

Discussion:
http://askubuntu.com/a/480827/34298

W dniu 26.08.2014 o 18:13, rubo77 pisze:
> Is there a follow-up packet that replaces typin-break? I know of
> rsibreak which is quite buggy in 14.04 and workrave, which works, but
> the indicator icon there is not visible in unity
>
Please file a bug against Workrave.
You mean the applet (with the bars) or the sheep icon?

Probably the applet is not implemented for Unity.