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apt-get remove skype didnt remove skype in linux mint 17.3 rosa, because after removing i was still be able to launch skype. Btw i tried to reinstall skype because systray icon near clock and other applets on panel doesn't show after i accidentally removed it... Still cant find the solution to it...
As for the missing icon, there should be a way to add it back through the desktop settings. What desktop environment are you using (MATE, Cinnamon, something else)?
Its linux mint 17.3 rosa.It seems that i cant find the way to add skype applet through panel add applet function, because skype is not there.Btw i noticed that os update icon, as well as others systray status icons are missing(ktorrent etc.).Its quite difficult to find the way to add it to desktop add aplet list of installed programs.Its strange, because previously it worked well, and now its gone.Seems like a bug or smth.Would be great if someone had any ideas of how to fix it cos i cant search out the solution.
Distribution: Slackware (current), FreeBSD, Win10, It varies
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Originally Posted by Kalinauskas
Its linux mint 17.3 rosa.It seems that i cant find the way to add skype applet through panel add applet function, because skype is not there. Btw i noticed that os update icon, as well as others systray status icons are missing(ktorrent etc.).Its quite difficult to find the way to add it to desktop add aplet list of installed programs.Its strange, because previously it worked well, and now its gone.Seems like a bug or smth.Would be great if someone had any ideas of how to fix it cos i cant search out the solution.
Does Skype got a desktop file in .../applications directory?
put on your thinking cap then go into fugue it out mode. find another applet already being used then see how it is done behind the seances then mimic it only change the vars to skype where needed.
missing icons: install themes ~ icons ~ pick some what ever it shows available depending on what theme you have picked to use in your DT/WM
To find the proper package name for skype to provide to apt:
Code:
dpkg -l skype*
Sounds like you removed the systray applet from the panel itself. You have to add that to the panel first, the icons will follow. You can not add individual icons to systray if it's not there in the first place.
gezas@Kamputeris ~ $ dpkg -l skype*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii skype 4.3.0.37-0ub i386 client for Skype VOIP and instant
ii skype-bin 4.3.0.37-0ub i386 client for Skype VOIP and instant
un skype-common <none> <none> (no description available)
un skype-mid <none> <none> (no description available)
So if i removed skype applet from the list of add applets list in panel options menu, there HAS to be a simple way of getting it back. But how to figure if its not some kind of bug? Because not onlys skype, but system update icon is missing too, which i didint remove...
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I don't run cinnamon -- but I know sometimes if one uninstalls what ever it not working, then re-installs it sometimes it fixes the problem. I too know you can modify that bar, or what ever cinnamon calls it, edit maybe. see if you're allowed to add a systray to it, if yes add one, then see want it does. As I do not want to tell you to remove the other one, without having tired this myself to see what he results would be.
But it maybe just what it needs, MAYBE, just remove the other one then install a "new one" , or if it is actually this
Code:
Error importing applet.js from
that is not loading in your system tray, then I'd take a look at the files that are associated to it that cause it to load. perhaps within them their maybe a path that is not set right or some strange thing as that.
your java home_path set right pointing to javac, and is that applet in the right path to javac? is it setup properly within the config cinnamon uses to set apples to the system tray? have you double checked it, removed it then put it back in by giving it absolute path to the applet?
Code:
apt-get remove <app> and apt-get purge <app>
I think that is how that goes to remove apps, and purge them from your system. Its been a while sense I've messed with apt-get.
gezas@Kamputeris ~ $ dpkg -l skype*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii skype 4.3.0.37-0ub i386 client for Skype VOIP and instant
ii skype-bin 4.3.0.37-0ub i386 client for Skype VOIP and instant
un skype-common <none> <none> (no description available)
un skype-mid <none> <none> (no description available)
So if i removed skype applet from the list of add applets list in panel options menu, there HAS to be a simple way of getting it back. But how to figure if its not some kind of bug? Because not onlys skype, but system update icon is missing too, which i didint remove...
Sounds like you may be missing the Notification Area, or Indicator Plugin.
I don't know how to fix that on Cinnamon, sorry.
Try creating a new user on the system and then login as that new user.
launch skype.
See what's what.
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