forbidden icon in Ubuntu 13.10

Same here. There is package for Saucy (manually installing Raring deb works though) though, so is this something that is actually not even supposed to work correctly? Clearly something related to the indicators has changed somewhere.

#2: Gah, correction: *there is _no_

same problem here.

You can fix it editing the file /usr/bin/indicator-sysmonitor in the line #724. Replace:

        self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("indicator-sysmonitor",
          "sysmonitor",
            appindicator.CATEGORY_SYSTEM_SERVICES)

with:

        self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("indicator-sysmonitor",
          "gnome-system-monitor",
            appindicator.CATEGORY_SYSTEM_SERVICES)

Now it will show the gnome-system-monitor default Icon.

thanks for that. Its much better now, not the same as before 13.10, but i kind of like it.

Improving that workaround: above attachment is a 1 px wide empty .svg icon. Place it somewhere in your home folder, and put its path in place if "gnome-system-monitor".

Apparently it is not possible to not have an icon? (http://askubuntu.com/questions/225691/write-application-indicator-with-no-icon).

Thanks dannet and Timo! Nice workaround!

well the fix is not working for me though, that's what i get in the terminal:

$ indicator-sysmonitor
  File "/usr/bin/indicator-sysmonitor", line 726
    self.ind.set_status(appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent

$ uname -a
Linux peppos 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

i tried everything that u said but its still not working. while trying to run from the terminal i get an IndetationError and i think it has something to do with that

Check that the indentation on every line is right, particularly on your line 726. Python uses indentation to determine the blocks of code.

well it looks right to me, thats a copy of it:

self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("indicator-sysmonitor",
          "gnome-system-monitor",
            appindicator.CATEGORY_SYSTEM_SERVICES)
        self.ind.set_status(appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)
        self.ind.set_label("Init...")

should i copy the whole code?

Those three lines starting by "self.ind" should have the same indentation. See my screenshot.

alexandros are you sure that you copied/edited the code right, because it seems like you have a structure problem in your code, maybe too many spaces...

fixed the spaces and all, now i got another issue on terminal:

$ indicator-sysmonitor
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/indicator-sysmonitor", line 27, in <module>
    import appindicator
ImportError: No module named appindicator

--

but i do have "import appindicator" and i didnt change anything else except what u told me to. seems a bit strange.
does it have to do with me having a 64-bit ubuntu version?

Do you have installed the python-appindicator package?

Fix in #5 worked very nicely for me.

@derastronaut: what do you mean this no longer affects Ubuntu? I've done an update just now and this issue remains.

In other news...

I made a modification to one of my indicators as I had the same issue. In short I dynamically create a 1 pixel SVG and save to the current user's HOME directory.

For indicator-sysmonitor I made the following changes:

class IndicatorSysmonitor(object):
...
    def __init__(self):
...
        SVG_FILE = os.getenv( "HOME" ) + "/" + "." + "indicator-sysmonitor" + "-icon" + ".svg"
        with open( SVG_FILE, "w" ) as f:
            svg = '<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">' \
                  '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 1 1"></svg>'
            f.write( svg )
            f.close()

        self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("indicator-sysmonitor", "." + "indicator-sysmonitor" + "-icon", appindicator.CATEGORY_SYSTEM_SERVICES)
...

I know it will sound very noob but how can i put the path /syntax of the empty.svg icon in the file?

see screenshot attached in comment #12 andrea and u'll understand it from there

Thank you Alexandre. I missed that somehow in the thread :)

#5 works ! perfect!

#5 & #7 works ! good jpb! look the picture

I have the same problem with a fresh install of 14.04 when I installed indicator-sysmonitor. Very annoying.

For 14.04 You can use solution show in #5 and #7, but with 22x1 empty .svg file.
1x1 doesn't work because icons are automatically stretch to 22 pixels.

I found https://launchpad.net/~fossfreedom/+archive/indicator-sysmonitor which provides a 14.04 build.

fixed in v0.8.1 release