How to maximize a GUI for a running app - no icon in system taskbar
Hello - the Mint forum is down so I've strayed further afield (:
Whilst using Luckybackup via its GUI, I started the back and hit 'minimize to system tray' button. No icon appeared in the system tray. I can see in 'System Monitor' that luckybackup is running. I found Looking Glass and there is an error that says: 'unable to lookup icon for luckybackup_2691_b4433b76c372fa7ac1d6abea12a3baf2-panel' I don't want to kill the backup process because it is halfway (hopefully) through a large backup of a dodgy hard drive that was dying. I've been looking for a way to maximize the GUI via the terminal or some other magic so that I can see if the backup is actually happening or if it stalled due to harddrive errors etc. I've looked online but no luck so far. ALT + tab doesn't show it. Thanks for reading - hoping someone may have some suggestions |
By the way what window manager are you running?
In XFCE I easily recapture a lost task-icon by doing this: Alt+F2, then type command at the box: Quote:
I presume there is similar manipulation in Gnome and KDE. |
Oh what in idiot - it was late and I forgot to include any info:
Mint 17.3 (not the compromised version) Cinnamon So I think Cinnamon is the window manager? If so, then restarting Cinnamon didn't help. I ended up killing the process. It seemed to have stalled at about 1% of the way through the 1 GB backup. Even so, I'd still like to know if its possible to maximize a disappeared GUI if anyone has any ideas. Thanks for replying :) |
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One way is to restart the panel, this often recollects the icons into the bar. This I have said above already. Another way is to avoid running the task in a daemon option (usually it is --daemon or -d option that recedes the task to a background.) You can check if the task runs in daemon mode by querying Code:
ps axu Hope that helps. Good luck. m.m. |
Thank you m.m.!
I'll check out what you've told me and see what I can learn Cheers, Lu |
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If your back-up software has problem there is an emergency way of backing up the entire hard drive. So long as the "aged-hard-drive" keeps running, attach it into your Gnu/Linux machine, make a backup of your old hard drive into a single file. Get a terminal: Code:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/maxxie/olddrive.iso Now, if you want to browse your back-up you will only need to mount it like a DVD. Get a terminal, be root, issue: Code:
mkdir /mnt/backupfile Hope that is still useful to you. Good luck and enjoy. m.m. |
Yes, thank you, your post is still useful - especially since I'm going to have another go at it!
And this time I'm making notes in a hard copy book for next time. One last question if I may? What would I change to back up sdb to sdd2, assuming sdd2 is already mounted? Code:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/maxxie/olddrive.iso |
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umount /dev/sdd2 First, we remount the receiving drive in order to write an iso file image of sdb within it; be a root: Code:
--maxxie@host$ sudo -i <Enter> <Password> Code:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=ImageOfOldDrive.iso bs=1024 When done, you may want to check if the image backup is good by browsing into it. First thing to do is to mount it to a point. Code:
sudo mkdir /mnt/isomountpoint Hope that helps. Good luck and enjoy. m.m. |
Many thanks again m.m. :)
I really appreciate you taking the time to explain the commands :) :) :) |
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