Applets/Icons Messed Up After Recent Update

Desktop Environments Cinnamon
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Hello,
after the most recent update of Cinnamon packages 1) some applets are not working properly any more.
Anyone else experienced this?

First, I found some applets not appearing.
~/.xsession-errors listed a problem with the sound applet, reporting the gsettings key maximum-volume missing.
Indeed, gsettings list-keys org.cinnamon.desktop.sound listed six keys but not maximum-volume.
After some searching I manually created such an entry 2) in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.sound.gschema.xml.
After recompiling the scheme with sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ and relaunching cinnamon the error is gone and I got the sound applet up and running again.

Also the power applet is kinda loaded but not displaying an icon, which renders it useless since I’d like to see the charging status of this laptop’s battery.
There’s just an empty space and I can click it, but power settings won’t load.

Not sure if this update has to do with that problem:
[2024-11-27T00:55:10+0100] [ALPM] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (1:4.16.6-1 -> 1:4.16.7-1)

This is all unchartered waters to me, I’m giving up (for) now, need to get on with my projects.
Anyway, it seems this needs some re-work.
As long as this won’t slow down productivity I’d ignore this and wait for the next update.

Thanks, Michael.

1)

[2024-11-27T00:55:16+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-menus (6.2.0-1 -> 6.4.0-1)
[2024-11-27T00:55:16+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-desktop (6.2.0-1 -> 6.4.0-1)
[2024-11-27T00:55:17+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-control-center (6.2.0-1 -> 6.4.0-1)
[2024-11-27T00:55:17+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-screensaver (6.2.1-1 -> 6.4.0-1)
[2024-11-27T00:55:17+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-translations (6.2.2-1 -> 6.4.0-1)

2)
vi /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.sound.gschema.xml
enter

    <key name="maximum-volume" type="i">
      <default>100</default>
      <summary>Maximum allowed Volume</summary>
      <description>Max allowed Volume</description>
    </key>

as another key.

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cin

nothing happened to mine at all the last 3 updates…and they all pull down and/or have context menus. and function. EXCEPT: sound mostly works–click in ‘sound settings’ in the direct mouse drop down and nothing happens. This is new.

I got a flesh wound. You got nuked. I wonder why the difference? Or how I can help? But sleep soon and long day tomorrow so may not be able to communicate for 20 hrs…but am curious what happened

edit: I am running cinnamon

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Well, would you connect the ‘sound-settings’ issue to a recent update?
‘Nothing happens’ is the same here with the icon-less ‘Power’ applet.

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Same thing happening here running Cinnamon, never had time to look into yet as I just took the update and rebooted.

EDIT: Noticed pipewire was one of the updates taken here.

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Also having major problems since Cinnamon update. Had to unplug all but one monitor just to get somewhat operational. Had to unplug and replug both mouse and keyboard to make them operational. really hope there will be another update very, very soon which can fix problems.

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on startup today:

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“please contact the developer” :slight_smile:

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right … this was exactly the notification I got immediately after the first reboot after the update when all the ‘fun’ started. :roll_eyes:

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Also I’m not sure what is ‘offending’ what in this hiccup?!

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other stuff got fubar’d too. I noticed my screen went to sleep (I don’t have sleep or screensaver activated–my screen never goes to sleep) and when I went to Power Management to investigate, PM will not launch so I am unable to manage my own power settings…

in cinnamon applets there are no ‘exlclamation marks’ or anything out of the ordinary

I scared to see how much other menu stuff fails to launch. i don’t know where to begin an audit or debug. am up to date. we will see how this plays out!

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I was playing with Cinnamon Wayland, switched to Xorg and no difference. I looked at a few items like yourself and finding breakage in other place, some you have already pointed out. :+1:

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to be honest I haven’t done my Idots Guide in a couple months my cache is a bulging 26GB. let me purge logs and cleanup old stuff and reboot and try again later.

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I flush my cache on exit automatically, no joy but waiting for your outcome.

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reboot/nothing changed. everything the same.
does Endeavour have a ‘check broken packages’ command? (I should know this but I don’t)

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“one or more applets or desklets failed to load”

my VOLUME slider is GONE :slight_smile:
edit: “applets” window shows it is installed so…

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Actually not sure, I’m running Cinnamon in a VM over the last month looking to see if it could be something that may make it to bare meta and also wanted to see how the Wayland side of the OS was working out.

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[I think Cinnamon is bare metal worthy (even with this tiny hiccup). they call it ‘old school’ but its a very comfortable DE to me, like budgie.]

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when I get home from work I guess I have to play a game of Dude Where’s My Volume Slider Applet?

PS–don’t see anything about this issue @ mint/cinnamon https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues

ciao for now

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I see a post on the Arch forums have just pop up.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301340

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it was the update then. these issues (in the archlinux thread) are volume and power management identical to mine.
“workaround: downgrade the packages”

I will wait for the Arch crew to fix then, should not be long. thank you for that

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Is this an individual applet or the one called ‘Sound’?
I fixed mine like in my original posting above.