Drop down box not working properly about gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet HOT 15 CLOSED

I just noticed that the System Monitor Preference program in ~/git_projects_gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/ lets me change the preferences so it's just the drop-down issue

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the code in the ppa version is a bit out of date now, you might be best off installing from the git version.

as for disk usage problem, currently the list of disks is built when gnome-shell starts up, as such it probably won't detect partitions that you mount through nautilus after logging in (but should if you restart the shell after mounting them?). You say its only showing one drive so presumably that is your / partition?

If you run this in a terminal
gnome-shell --replace

do you see a bunch of messages like this?
glibtop: statvfs '/media/drive1' failed

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No. At first it just displayed some starting messages then is gave some window errors and caused gnome to freeze up completely.

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I'd copy the output but I think It'll cause my session to freeze again

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Try run this then, it will save output to a file.

gnome-shell --replace > gs.log 2>&1

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Did that. Nothing seems to happen. There is increased cpu and mem usage. When I force the terminal to close is freezes the session (I think this is what I actually did the first time). When I run just gnome-shell --replace I get this

gnome-shell-calendar-server[2672]: Lost (or failed to acquire) the name org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer - exiting
JS LOG: System monitor applet init from /home/gak/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
JS LOG: System monitor applet enabling
JS LOG: System monitor applet enabling done
JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Thu Oct 20 2011 16:50:30 GMT-0600 (MDT)

But the process isn't complete. Should it take a while to complete?

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I can confirm that clicking on "preferences" from the drop down window doesn't make the configuration popup to appear.

I thought this was because of some changes in the files I merged as per suggestion in #49, but reading this bug report, I realised it was probably not the case. I can access to the preference dialogue by issuing the command directly with system-monitor-applet-config though.

My circular diagrams are also grey (although accurate). I noticed the ones in the README file are colourful but I thought it was just a matter of configuration and I did not bother.

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yeh once you run that command the shell is running in the terminal, so you can't close it! It will continue to log any errors as they happen.

However reloading it should re-load the list of disks, and pick up any that were mounted after login.By default Ubuntu auto-mounts additional drives when you first access them. Really you should add any permanent drives into /etc/fstab so they get mounted at boottime.

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Now I'm getting this. The process is still not done though

JS ERROR: !!!   Exception in callback for signal: activate
JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"_gsmPrefs is null"'
JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '925'
JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/home/gak/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js"'
JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object Object],[object _private_Clutter_Event])@/home/gak/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:925

_emit("activate",[object _private_Clutter_Event])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124
([object _private_Clutter_Event])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/popupMenu.js:108
([object _private_Shell_GenericContainer],[object _private_Clutter_Event])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/popupMenu.js:81
"'

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I currently only have the one drive. Also actual graphs in the in panel appear to be working just fine it is the circular one that doesn't change.

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@Ubunting-Biochemist Have you installed the system-monitor-applet-config.desktop file

it should be in

`````` /usr/share/applicationsor~/.local/share/applications/```

However since it appears to be missing that is why you can't launch preferences app from drop-down.

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The circular graph displays used disk space.
The one in the panel display disk usage (speeds).

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I am missing the system-monitor-applet-config.desktop file

I followed the directions on the git-hub page to install (i.e. no ppa). what did I miss?

Ahh. I misunderstood what the circular graph was doing.

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looks like it is missing from the instructions in the README.

cp ~/git_projects/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/system-monitor-applet-config.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

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Tried that got 'no such file' but rather there is a 'system-monitor-applet-config.desktop' did a cp for that file and now it works perfectly. Thanks so much for your quick help with this. I am marking this closed

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