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[Locked] Mintmenu applet non-functional in Cairo-dock with LM16 and Cinnamon [Bug #333]
riv-dogg English 1 taiebot65 [Read]
11 June 2014 à 22:14

riv-dogg, Thursday 29 May 2014 à 16:14


Subscription date : 27 May 2014
Messages : 3
New thread started as suggested by SQP. Many thanks for your help. My original satarted post as follows....

>>>>>
Subscription date : 27 May 2014
Messages : 2    First of all very new to Mint (16) and Cairo Dock, and fairly new to Linux in general - so please assume I will need spoonfeeding a bit.

I basically know what's what and can use the terminal. Have installed Mint 16 (Cinnamon) on my Dell 15z laptop - it has the nvidia card, but I don't think I have it working yet. Cairo Dock (3.3.2) is installed and working just fine, but 'mintmenu applet is non-responsive'. Have installed the latest applet and have installed mintmenu. I've read this thread carefully. but nothing is working. The icon appears on the dock, but does nothing. Can anyone help?
>>>>>>>>++

Thanks for suggestion SQP - The terminal immediately gave the following info.

james@JCLT-15Z-LM ~ $ cairo-dock
warning : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-3.3.2/src/implementations/cairo-dock-glx.c:_initialize_opengl_backend:179)
couldn't find an appropriate visual, trying to get one without Stencil buffer
(it may cause some little deterioration in the rendering) ...


    Cairo-Dock version : 3.3.2
    Compiled date : Jan 21 2014 23:36:49
    Built with GTK : 3.8
    Running with OpenGL: 1

Cairo-Dock - Launcher API Daemon is already running (1917)
_cd_find_volume_name_from_drive_name: assertion 'pDrive != NULL' failed
_cd_find_volume_name_from_drive_name: assertion 'pDrive != NULL' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./MintMenu", line 36, in <module>
import mateapplet as gnomeapplet
ImportError: No module named mateapplet

As I say I'm very 'green' - I just started Cairo-Dock from the terminal and tried to install the applet. I hope this was what you wanted.

taiebot65, Wednesday 11 June 2014 à 22:14


Subscription date : 26 October 2008
Messages : 1904
it looks like you do have missing libraries for python to work with mint-menu which is weird as you are on mint?

Have you tried creating a launcher which launch the mint menu?

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[Locked] Mintmenu applet non-functional in Cairo-dock with LM16 and Cinnamon [Bug #333]
riv-dogg English 1 taiebot65 [Read]
11 June 2014 à 22:14


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