MinimWatch - no tray icon(s) or desktop launcher

[nickc]

I've just returned to this issue after a long absence and found your latest post, for which many thanks. Not much luck so far though as I can't activate the TopIcons Plus shell extension. I have the latest Gnome-shell installed, I've got the Gnome shell integration addon in Firefox, but when I go to the TopIcons Plus Gnome extension page I get a pop-up message: "no-gnome-shell". See here:
https://github.com/nE0sIghT/chrome-gnome.../issues/57
Though this bug was in an earlier version and I have v9:

Code:

chrome-gnome-shell is already the newest version (9-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.3).

So I'm a bit flummoxed and getting out of my comfort zone!

Reading back over this thread and your PMs I'm also getting confused about java. We seem to start off talking about getting MinimWatch to function properly on my desktop, versions of java being possibly the issue, so I've been assuming it's the java on my desktop that needs changing. But you refer to a newer version of MinimServer and java 9, so is it MinimServer on the NAS that's causing MinimWatch on the desktop to not function? I've got the 32bit Java 9 (many thanks) on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop now, but reviewing your guidance, I'm wondering if it should be on the two NASs running MinimServer, as you tell me to add a file minimstart.conf to the minimserver folder telling it which java to use. But I only have a MinimWatch folder on my desktop, not a MinimServer one. I've tried adding the /etc/minimstart.conf file to the minimwatch folder, but no joy so far.

Forgive me if this all seems very confused - I am at the moment!