RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > As I'm working on a simple linux system I'm trying to keep things as
> uncomplicated as possible.
> > I've been unable to make gdm work
>
> If your session is not running under GDM, you won't be able to lock the
> screen or switch users. From your description, that's probably acceptable for
> your system, and there shouldn't be any more drawbacks (GDM doesn't do
> any special magic when launching gnome-session).
>
>
> > but I can launch gnome-session by setting $DESKTOP=gnome-session in the
> above. When I did this, I noticed that the upower icon appeared in the top
> panel, but like the nm-applet, it will not let me do anything due to permission
> issues.
>
> At this point the problem is no longer the way you launch your GNOME
> session - "permission issues" could be your PolKit configuration?

No doubt, but it's odd that without changing anything other than starting with gnome-shell/gnome-session I 
see the upower icon with one and not with the other.

Since on my system the user, any added users and root are all members of the same group, is there an easy 
polkit configuration that will enable nm-applet, upower, sound, etc?