Can't see Specto UI in panel

[hipitihop]

I have had Specto running on my Ubuntu/Gnome system for some time,
however at some point it's panel icon and hence any access to
configuration/setup has disappeared. I have tried reinstalling Specto
and also deleted my ~/.specto/ directory, but nothing has worked to
reinstate the UI.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

[Wout Clymans]

Run specto from the terminal and send us the output :)

Best regards,
Wout

[Jeff Fortin]

I doubt it's a tray icon logic error (because I remember my logic being perfect back then :P), but in the event that running specto from a terminal outputs no error/traceback and it still doesn't work, you may want to check the actual *settings*, which are stored in gconf. You can access them using gconf-editor. In particular you may be interested by:
/apps/specto/always_show_icon
/apps/specto/debug_mode
/apps/specto/show_in_windowlist
/apps/specto/show_notifier

[hipitihop]

Thanks, I read the same suggestion in another thread so I tried that,
unfortunately there is no output.

regards Denis

On Dec 27, 5:34 pm, "Wout Clymans" <woutclym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Run specto from the terminal and send us the output :)
>
> Best regards,
> Wout
>

[Jeff Fortin]

Have you tried my suggestion of editing the settings through gconf-editor?

[Denis Johnson]

Hi Jeff, yes thanks, I was not aware of the gconf-editor, most useful.
I checked all the Specto settings you mentioned, however they were all
already ticked. However I did try one setting related to open notifier
window, and when I restarted Specto it's main window with the watch
list came up. So that is a partial solution. Why it does not show it's
panel icon is still a mystery.

cheers Denis

[Jeff Fortin]

The setting are all set to true? In any case, if you want to reset all settings (that may fix your problem), you can run this command:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/specto/

[Denis Johnson]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Jeff Fortin <neko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The setting are all set to true?

yes, see attached screenshot

> In any case, if you want to reset all
> settings (that may fix your problem), you can run this command:
>
> gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/specto/

Tried this but it has not made any apparent difference.

I'm not sure what I have done, perhaps I did something silly and
removed it from the main panel inadvertently. I don't want to waste
your time any further. At least when I use gconf-editor and set the
'show-notifier' to true, when specto starts it shows the watch list
and I can interact with it.

[Jeff Fortin]

Well, maybe you removed the "notification area" applet from the panel (if no other apps show icons there, that may be an indicator).

[Denis Johnson]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jeff Fortin <neko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, maybe you removed the "notification area" applet from the panel (if no
> other apps show icons there, that may be an indicator).

Indeed that was exactly the problem, I feel embarrassed but I have
learned something. I apologize for wasting your time. Many thanks for
your time and persistence.

regards Denis