[20.04] Icon right side top panel and Default e-mail client

[dr.poposchmatzer]

Hi erveryone, i'm really happy to have joined the Ubuntu Mate community. I've been a Mate user since ver. 16.04 and i'm very impressed about the useability and I do all my work with this OS. Now, I use ver. 20.04 and I have some (new) issues and questions.

I use the Sayonara music player and when I start the program don't show the right icon on right upper top bar (Picture 1).

In the deafult application settings, I can not change the player to Syonara, the entry just doesn't exist. I think, thats the reason that I can't use my media keys on the keyboard (forward title, start/stop, backward title) (Picture 2). The Keyboard shortcuts are set up already.

This leads me directly to the next problem. I also can not change the default E- Mail Client (it's greyed out) and I also can't start it with my keybaord shortcut (Picture 3).

Thanks in advance for your help.

[olek]

Hi

About email setting, do you have Evolution or Thunderbird installed ? Can you start it for the first time if it's not done ?

About your keyboard shortcut i'm advising you to check if xinput is able to receive them using :

xinput test <your keyboard id>

like this :

┌─[✗]─[olek@apbook04u]─[~]
└──╼ $xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ HAILUCK CO.,LTD Lenovo HID Device Touchpad	id=14	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HAILUCK CO.,LTD Lenovo HID Device       	id=9 ( try to find your keyboard id, mine is 9 ) [slave  keyboard (3)]
┌─[olek@apbook04u]─[~]
└──╼ $xinput test 9
key release 36 
key press   39 
skey release 39 
key press   39 
skey release 39

and next press some of this extra keys

[dr.poposchmatzer]

Hi olek,

it's the default Evolution installation that comes with Mate 20.04 and it is running and working. It brings also a notification when a new mail arrived.

As I wrote, the shortcuts setting are done.

Tried xinput but it doesn't show output for the special keys. Tried out with showkey it gave the followed:
0xe0 0x10
0xe0 0x90 for backward key

0xe0 0x22
0xe0 0xa2 for start/stop key

0xe0 0x19
0xe0 0x99 forward key

It's a Cherry DW5100 Keyboard, thats worked fine in 18.04.

[olek]

From what i remember, the list of applications is populated thanks to that file :

/usr/share/applications/defaults.list

and application you have as default is reported to :

~/.config/mimeapps.list

Can you try locate entry for messages ?

cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list | grep message

and :

cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list | grep message

You should find something similar to to have it as default :

┌─[olek@apbook04u]─[~]
└──╼ $cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list | grep message
message/rfc822=org.gnome.Evolution.desktop

[olek]

I would add this line inside /usr/share/applications/defaults.list if not existing :

text/calendar=org.gnome.Evolution.desktop

How did you installed Syonara ? deb ? repo ?
As your icon looks broken and if you installed from .deb maybe you need to install some missing software :

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apt-get install -f

[dr.poposchmatzer]

The line text/calendar=org.gnome.Evolution.desktop inside /usr/share/applications/defaults.list exist.

I used snap for the first time. Maybe installation, like I did it with 18.04, from deb is the better choice for the next time.

I will take a look on this mimeapps.list.

Thanks a lot.

[olek]

I would try to put this :

message/rfc822=org.gnome.Evolution.desktop

inside

~/.config/mimeapps.list Logout, login, and next try click on a mailto link.

You can do the same with Syonara :

Replace those with the syonara.desktop (exact name can be found here /usr/share/applications/) :

audio/mpeg=rhythmbox.desktop
audio/x-mpegurl=rhythmbox.desktop
audio/x-scpls=rhythmbox.desktop
audio/x-vorbis+ogg=rhythmbox.desktop
audio/x-wav=rhythmbox.desktop

Good luck there

[dr.poposchmatzer]

No, no changes. Can you do me a favor? If you also use 20.04, can you tell me if default mail setting it's grayed out for you too or not?

Thanks!

[olek]

Sure, I'm running 20.04 UM fresh build and it look there :

Did you logout / login again ?

[olek]

Do you have this file at this location ?

Do this file have this content ?

MimeType=text/calendar;text/x-vcard;text/directory;application/mbox;message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;x-scheme-handler/webcal;x-scheme-handler/calendar;x-scheme-handler/task;x-scheme-handler/memo;

[dr.poposchmatzer]

Yes, logout / login and a couple of reboots. I will do a new 20.04 install. It's not a big deal for me and then check again mail settings, shortcuts and a new install of Sayonara.

[olek]

Keep us updated

[dr.poposchmatzer]

After trying to fix the problems a short update:
The new installation of 20.04 is completed and Evolution and the shortcuts now working.

The same for the media player. I install Sayonara via Deb and now the shortcuts and symbol also works.

[olek]

Perfect
Something got wrong ...
Once you start having issues with a fresh install config, a rebuild is a good option
Thanks for the update and good luck