Cinnamon Messaging Menu
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I'm trying to work something out here.
I use Trisquel 7, but don't like the GNOME Flashback. It's slow, clunky, and ugly on my system unless I disable everything (which fixes slow and clunky, but not ugly). Linux Mint was my first foray into GNU/Linux, and I always liked the Cinnamon desktop, so when I upgraded from Trisquel 6 to Trisquel 7, I set up the Cinnamon DE. For me, it works much better, is cleaner, and nicer.
The one thing I do really miss from the standard Trisquel DE is the messaging menu. Right now, I've got Icedove running with Firetray to minimize it to the tray, Pidgin automatically can, as can Turpial. But Liferea is the one application I can't get to run in the tray. I miss the convenience of that menu.
I know that Cinnamon continues to develop as its own separate desktop environment, but, still being based on GNOME, I was wondering if it were possible to somehow incorporate that messaging menu into Cinnamon's applet tray.
when i searched "cinnamon DE messaging menu"
all the rely came up was this post so it may be that cinnamon just dose not have a messaging menu (correct me if i am wrong)
i personally use gnome3 shell the messaging system works well and its very customizable i think unity and xfce also have pop-up messages
What Trisquel 7 uses by default is actually from Unity, not GNOME. It's called the "Indicator Applet".
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the name of the indicator should be indicator-applet and if you type that in the terminal it should start. If I am correct, then all you need to do is make sure it starts automatically on boot. In xfce there is an option in the main settings called Session and startup and there one can add what he wants to run on boot (conky for instance or plank in my case). In cinnamon you should have a similar setting. If not you need to place the .desktop file in /home/.config/autostart/
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Just trying to run indicator-applet in a terminal (with and without sudo) only produced: "bash: indicator-applet: command not found". I did manage to track down the service in /usr/lib/x86_64 linux-gnu/ and start it from there and confirmed it was running in the system monitor, but nothing shows up in the Cinnamon panel. Same thing if I try to run indicator-messages.
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Teelinome: sorry that didn't work :(
I suggested that procedure because that is what I did some time ago when I had some audio issues (which I then solved by completely purging pulse audio). I needed a decent audio control applet and I installed and made automatically executable on boot the plugin "volti" and it worked.
I have little experience with cinnamon (Mint cinnamon was my first distro when I switched to GNU) but being that I used it a long time ago I don't remember well the panel settings etc..
Maybe try asking in their IRC or forum or whatever they have.
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