R3.0: Minimal netvm system tray icon missing

[andrewdavidwong]

If you follow the instructions here for using fedora-21-minimal as a netvm template, you will get a netvm icon (NetworkManager?) in the dom0 system tray in R2, but doing the same thing in R3.0 results in no netvm icon.

NetworkManager and network-manager-applet are both installed. Another missing package, perhaps?

[marmarek]

Did you installed update from testing repository (that fixing menu shortcuts for minimal template)? This may be the same issue.

[marmarek]

Did you installed update from testing repository (that fixing menu shortcuts for minimal template)? This may be the same issue.

[andrewdavidwong]

No, this template has no testing packages.

[andrewdavidwong]

No, this template has no testing packages.

[marmarek]

Try simply installing dbus-python. This is what that fix does.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

Try simply installing dbus-python. This is what that fix does.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[andrewdavidwong]

Yes, that fixes it. However, it also causes the icon to show up for the firewallvm.

(My solution is just to base firewallvm on plain fedora-21-minimal instead, since I have no need for any packages in the firewallvm.)

[andrewdavidwong]

Yes, that fixes it. However, it also causes the icon to show up for the firewallvm.

(My solution is just to base firewallvm on plain fedora-21-minimal instead, since I have no need for any packages in the firewallvm.)

[marmarek]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:16:03PM -0700, Axon wrote:

Yes, that fixes it. However, it also causes the icon to show up for the firewallvm.

Maybe you have enabled network-manager also in firewallvm? Check
services tab in VM settings.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:16:03PM -0700, Axon wrote:

Yes, that fixes it. However, it also causes the icon to show up for the firewallvm.

Maybe you have enabled network-manager also in firewallvm? Check
services tab in VM settings.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[andrewdavidwong]

Nope. (It's just the unmodified default sys-firewall.)

[andrewdavidwong]

Nope. (It's just the unmodified default sys-firewall.)

[marmarek]

Short answer: the missing package is gnome-settings-daemon, probably not something you want to install in minimal template.

Details: currently upstream nm-applet is visible even if no NetworkManager is running. This is useless in Qubes, so we have some script which hides the icon. It is done using gsettings - as the official way to hide the icon. This doesn't work without gnome-settings-daemon.
Ideally we would not start nm-applet at all, but since sometimes it is useful to have it not only in NetVM (for example to configure VPN), we haven't simple way to do it flexible enough.
You can disable nm-applet using other means. For example by creating ~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
NoDisplay=true

There are probably GUI tools for that.

Anyway since the main issue (missing nm-applet icon) is already fixed, I'm closing this ticket now.

[marmarek]

Short answer: the missing package is gnome-settings-daemon, probably not something you want to install in minimal template.

Details: currently upstream nm-applet is visible even if no NetworkManager is running. This is useless in Qubes, so we have some script which hides the icon. It is done using gsettings - as the official way to hide the icon. This doesn't work without gnome-settings-daemon.
Ideally we would not start nm-applet at all, but since sometimes it is useful to have it not only in NetVM (for example to configure VPN), we haven't simple way to do it flexible enough.
You can disable nm-applet using other means. For example by creating ~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
NoDisplay=true

There are probably GUI tools for that.

Anyway since the main issue (missing nm-applet icon) is already fixed, I'm closing this ticket now.

[marmarek]

@Rudd-O found out that installing dconf alone fixes the problem. Will add to dependencies.

[marmarek]

@Rudd-O found out that installing dconf alone fixes the problem. Will add to dependencies.

[Rudd-O]

No need for gnome settings daemon. Dconf alone works.

[Rudd-O]

No need for gnome settings daemon. Dconf alone works.