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hampsterstory
August 20th, 2012, 12:55 PM
I just installed xubuntu 12.04 parallel to xubuntu 11.10 ... But I can't get the date/time indicator to work in both of em ...
xfce4-indicator-plugin is installed ... the message and sound indicator is working!
please help me!

black veils
August 20th, 2012, 02:17 PM
does this help:

scroll to the header Multiple Boot Systems Time Conflicts
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

hampsterstory
August 20th, 2012, 02:30 PM
uhm ... No ... I'm sorry, my post is quite confusing ... :-|

I don't think it has something to do with the multiboot system, because the date/time indicator has never worked on the old system before.

It was my hope that the problem solves itself when a new version of ubuntu comes out ... But it appears that the xfce4-indicator-plugin isn't working with the date/time indicator ...

Toz
August 20th, 2012, 07:27 PM
I just installed xubuntu 12.04 parallel to xubuntu 11.10 ... But I can't get the date/time indicator to work in both of em ...
xfce4-indicator-plugin is installed ... the message and sound indicator is working!
please help me!

Is the DateTime plugin available as a choice to add to the panel? Or is it missing. If its missing, make sure that the xfce4-datetime-plugin package is installed. If it is installed but is not loading, can you post back the contents of your ~/.xsession-errors file:

pastebinit ~/.xsession-errors
...and post back the link that is generated.

Maybe something in there can help identify the source of the problem.

hampsterstory
August 20th, 2012, 10:03 PM
The date/time plugin of the xfce panel is working fine, but I want to exchange it for the date/time indicator, because of it's integration of the calendar of evolution.

However, I did upload the .xsession-errors here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1157863/

There are several ones resembling this in the file:

(xfce4-indicator-plugin:1768): xfce4-indicator-plugin-DEBUG: Excluding module: libdatetime.soAs you can see the indicator is installed (as well as the gtk2-module), but this might be the reason why I can't get it to work! Is there any way to force the indicator-plugin to load a specific indicator-module.

Thanks for your help :)

Toz
August 20th, 2012, 11:45 PM
I'm not able to test this, but what if you removed xfce4-datetime-plugin?

hampsterstory
August 21st, 2012, 06:13 PM
OK ... I experimented with some package configurations ...


sudo aptitude -y install xfce4-datetime-plugin_ orage_ indicator-datetime-gtk2+ indicator-applet+ After this reconfiguration and restarting the indicator-plugin on a fresh xubuntu-system, the datetime-indicator appears!

Any idea how to change the order of the indicators?! Right now the clock is between network-manager and sound-indicator and it looks kinda strange that way!

Toz
August 21st, 2012, 11:48 PM
Any idea how to change the order of the indicators?! Right now the clock is between network-manager and sound-indicator and it looks kinda strange that way!

I haven't tested it, but maybe this (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/how-to-change-application-indicators.html) will also work on Xubuntu?

hampsterstory
August 22nd, 2012, 06:26 PM
I haven't tested it, but maybe this (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/how-t...ndicators.html (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/how-to-change-application-indicators.html)) will also work on Xubuntu?This only works for the objects in the application-indicator. I tried it out, but it's not working on Xubuntu! However, I wanted to change the order of the indicators itself, since on Xubuntu it always seems to be: [Message][Sound][Date/Time][Application] This configuration looks rather ridiculous, because the application-indicator loads all kinds of applets and the time is somewhere in between.

But I managed to find out that my sole problem seems to be the application-indicator. I don't need it, it was just coming with the date/time indicator. But removing it via synaptic lets the date/time indicator vanish too ... So I got sick of the non-configurability of the indicators and simply deleted the application-indicator-libraries:

/usr/lib/indicators/7/libapplication.so
/usr/lib/indicators3/7/libapplication.soAnd now it's working: NO application-indicator BUT date/time-indicator!

Thanks for your help!!

BTW: If anyone has more elegant solutions, I'd be interested in those too ... ;)