Having issues with minimwatch in Ubuntu

[ReneZ]

Hmm, made a mess of it did I.

I'll have a look how far I get, as with all the other stuff on the laptop I'd rather not do another install.

Thanks, Rene.

[ReneZ]

I did as advised, but noted that both the older, removed (?) pachages still appear in the listing. Need to read a bit more up on it. When I did a search on the actual error there was a lot of posts that Ubuntu with Unity doesn't allow open use of the trey any more and that programs that want to use it need to be 'allowed' to do so.

This post seems to indicate a wider issue than just my set-up: https://github.com/quen/leafchat/issues/31

More reading to do! I added minimwatch to the allowed programs, but is still doesn't work. We'll get there! Thanks for the help so far!!

Regards, Rene

[simoncn]

(09-12-2013 00:43)ReneZ Wrote:  I did as advised, but noted that both the older, removed (?) pachages still appear in the listing. Need to read a bit more up on it. When I did a search on the actual error there was a lot of posts that Ubuntu with Unity doesn't allow open use of the trey any more and that programs that want to use it need to be 'allowed' to do so.

This post seems to indicate a wider issue than just my set-up: https://github.com/quen/leafchat/issues/31

More reading to do! I added minimwatch to the allowed programs, but is still doesn't work. We'll get there! Thanks for the help so far!!

Regards, Rene

Adter doing the purge (not remove), you also need to do autoremove to fully remove the purged packages and all their dependencies.

I have both Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04, and the tray icon notification for MinimWatch is working fine for me on both of these.

I don't know what you mean by allowed programs. I haven't come across this on my Ubuntu systems.

[ReneZ]

Hi Simon, only if you have time...

I did the removal and repeated it, at which time it advised me both packages were removed. However, when I request the package list I still get the following:

ii openjdk-6-jre- 6b27-1.12.5-0u OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (hea
ii openjdk-6-jre- 6b27-1.12.5-0u OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independe
ii openjdk-7-jre- 7u21-2.3.9-0ub OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (hea
ii openjdk-7-jre- 7u21-2.3.9-0ub OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independe

Any idea on how to remove these?

[simoncn]

(14-12-2013 16:42)ReneZ Wrote:  Hi Simon, only if you have time...

I did the removal and repeated it, at which time it advised me both packages were removed. However, when I request the package list I still get the following:

ii openjdk-6-jre- 6b27-1.12.5-0u OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (hea
ii openjdk-6-jre- 6b27-1.12.5-0u OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independe
ii openjdk-7-jre- 7u21-2.3.9-0ub OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (hea
ii openjdk-7-jre- 7u21-2.3.9-0ub OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independe

Any idea on how to remove these?

Did you run apt-get purge followed by apt-get autoremove?

[ReneZ]

Yes I did. I just followed the following page (http://akbarahmed.com/2012/06/24/uninsta...ntu-linux/) which was helpful as it allowed me to uninstall some 'slave' packages.

The command - sudo update-alternatives --display java - now gives the following

java - auto mode
link currently points to /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java
/opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java - priority 2000
slave java.1.gz: /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/man/man1/java.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java'.

And your earlier command - java -version

gives:

java version "1.7.0_45"
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
Java HotSpot™ Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)

So I assume I now have only one version installed and no duplicates or earlier versions or IceTea versions etc.
However I still get the same error message that doesn't allow the icon to appear and therefore no access to minimwatch.

Cheers, Rene

[simoncn]

(14-12-2013 17:25)ReneZ Wrote:  Yes I did. I just followed the following page (http://akbarahmed.com/2012/06/24/uninsta...ntu-linux/) which was helpful as it allowed me to uninstall some 'slave' packages.

The command - sudo update-alternatives --display java - now gives the following

java - auto mode
link currently points to /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java
/opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java - priority 2000
slave java.1.gz: /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/man/man1/java.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_45/bin/java'.

And your earlier command - java -version

gives:

java version "1.7.0_45"
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
Java HotSpot™ Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)

So I assume I now have only one version installed and no duplicates or earlier versions or IceTea versions etc.
However I still get the same error message that doesn't allow the icon to appear and therefore no access to minimwatch.

Cheers, Rene

Please can you do what I have suggested a number of times:

1) Run sudo apt-get purge for all the openjdk packages shown in 'dpkg -l'

2) Run sudo apt-get autoremove (this step is very important)

3) After doing this, run 'dpkg -l' again to confirm that all the openjdk packages are no longer listed

4) After confirming this, please email me the complete listing from 'dpkg -l'

[ReneZ]

Simon, as already confirmed before
Step 1 done a few times
Step 2 done a few times
At step 3 I noticed both packages (after doing 1 and 2 a few times :-)) were still there
Did a web search, found the linked page as in my previous post, did the advised there and managed to uninstall the openjdk packages. They no longer show in the package list.

Tried to start minimwatch, but again got the same error message for not being able to put the icon up.

Will send you the list.

Cheers, Rene

[simoncn]

(14-12-2013 20:17)ReneZ Wrote:  Simon, as already confirmed before
Step 1 done a few times
Step 2 done a few times
At step 3 I noticed both packages (after doing 1 and 2 a few times :-)) were still there
Did a web search, found the linked page as in my previous post, did the advised there and managed to uninstall the openjdk packages. They no longer show in the package list.

Tried to start minimwatch, but again got the same error message for not being able to put the icon up.

Will send you the list.

Cheers, Rene

From this page:

Note to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric users: Unity does not support system tray defined by FreeDesktop, you will need to switch to standard Gnome Panel to use DavMail (and any other application using system tray)

This suggests that the problem might be related to using 11.10 with Unity. I'm using 10.04 and 12.04, which both work OK.

[simoncn]

(14-12-2013 21:15)simoncn Wrote:  From this page:

Note to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric users: Unity does not support system tray defined by FreeDesktop, you will need to switch to standard Gnome Panel to use DavMail (and any other application using system tray)

This suggests that the problem might be related to using 11.10 with Unity. I'm using 10.04 and 12.04, which both work OK.

Here's some more information that might be helpful. Perhaps you need to put Java in the whitelist for the system tray.