[SOLVED] HPLIP and system tray problem

fuser312 · 12-30-2014, 05:51 AM

I am working on Slackware 14.1 x86 - 32 bit with KDE 4.10.5 and I got this error message at start up by HPLIP :

"No system tray detected on this system.
Unable to start, exiting."

After searching a bit I uninstalled HPLIP as I also don't have any printing needs on this machine but still system tray is not working. Most of the workarounds revolve around HPLIP itself but I don't understand, isn't hplip just a printing service and it failed to start because of some system tray problem.

So, I am basically looking to fix this "system tray" problem.

ReaperX7 · 12-30-2014, 06:30 AM

KDE should support it. Are you running as root or user?

allend · 12-30-2014, 06:41 AM

Perhaps you have removed the System Tray widget.
To restore:
Click on the toolbox on the top right of the screen. (Select 'Unlock Widgets' if necessary.) Select 'Add Widgets'. Select the System Tray widget.

fuser312 · 12-30-2014, 07:06 AM

^ you are right, this is embarrassing.

allend · 12-30-2014, 07:18 AM

No embarrassment necessary. How do you think I guessed?

fuser312 · 12-30-2014, 07:38 AM

yeah, thanks btw.