Re: Application names in the (bottom) notification area.

["Christian Dysthe" <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:49:34 -0500, Jasper St. Pierre  
<jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>  
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:00:46 -0500, Jasper St. Pierre
> > <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a couple of application which stays in the (bottom)  
> > > > notification
> > > > area. In Gnome 2 they were named "Update Manager" and "HP Printer
> > > > Manager",
> > > > but in Gnome Shell their names are "update.py" and "hp-toolbox". I  
> > > > think
> > > > that's their executable file names. Why aren't they named like they  
> > > > are
> > > > in
> > > > Gnome 2 or all other DE's I've used (Cinnamon, Unity, KDE, LXDE and
> > > > XFCE)?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cinnamon? Are you sure? If so, that's a pretty bad bug.
> >
> >
> > I checked Cinnamon again since I just updated it to v1.4 and it has  
> > been in
> > heavy development lately. Now his particular program, which btw is Linux
> > Mint's updater, doesn't a name associated with it in Cinnamon at all.  
> > It's
> > just the icon. But in Gnome Shell it's still'update.py' when you hover  
> > over
> > it. The other program is called 'HPLIP Status Service' in Cinnamon, but  
> > is
> > 'HP-systray' in Gnome Shell. To me it seems like Gnome Shell uses WM  
> > class
> > for naming, not the .desktop file. Could that be the case?
>
> That could very well be, and that would be a bug.

I checked with xprop. It really looks like Gnome Shell uses WM_class, not  
WM_name or the .desktop file. I'll look into filing it as a bug.
> > > > Is there a way I can get Gnome Shell to show their application name
> > > > instead
> > > > of the executable file name?
> > >
> > >
> > > Are these system tray icons or libnotify notifications?
>
> If you click on them, do they bring up a fancy bubble, or do they
> launch the application or bring up a menu or something.

No fancy bubble. One opens the application, the other has a menu with a  
few options.
> > I'm not sure what they are. How could I find out?
> >
> > > > I'm running Gnome 3.2 on Linux Mint Debian Edition UP4 x64.


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//Christian