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

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Go into the overview, launch the looking glass (Alt+F2 lg), click the
eye dropper and then click on the icon (make sure the center label
says ShellTrayIcon), and then enter into the evaluator:

    it.title

What does it say?

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>
>
> --
> //Christian
>
>



-- 
  Jasper