[xubuntu-users] Stop the notification area in Xfce

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 14/07/12 16:31, Lee Gold wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012, at 09:01 AM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a way in Xubuntu to completely remove or stop all action of the
>>> notification area? I want all icons just show up in the panel like they
>>> used too.
>>>
>>> If I just check in panel preference to not show the notification area
>>> then icons which only show up there will be missing. That is not want
>>> I'm asking.
>>>
>>> I want to completely uninstall it and have those icons show big and
>>> distinctly on the panel not crammed into a small area which is unusable
>>> on a hi-res laptop.
>>>
>>> Or set the notification area to contain absolutely nothing and then
>>> remove it from the panel = that would work if the icon relegated to it
>>> show up normally after that.
>> If you completely remove and uninstall the notification area, then the
>> icons will not appear anywhere anymore. They only show up in the
>> notification area, and without it they will just not show.
>> You can, however, move your notification area to the bigger panel, and
>> then it will adjust its size and display bigger icons.
>>
>> Or maybe you don't mean the notification area at all, but instead you
>> are thinking about the indicator plugin? Just uninstalling it with the
>> package manager gets rid of it nicely, it's always the first thing
>> that I do.
>> -- 
>> Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl
>>
> No difference w/or w/out indicator plugin.
>
> IMHO the notification area is an unnecessary complication. Why force me
> to squish my panel icons into a tiny area? - esp. w/hi-res laptop it
> makes no sense.
>
> Why is my volume control inside the indicator plugin? What mysterious
> rationale is there for this? Clipboard managers also are relagated to it
> too(?)
>
> I just want ease of use, and not to squint. Why did they do this?
>
All you need to do is install the xfce4-mixer package, which provides a 
separate mixer applet without needing the notification area. It is much 
harder to use wifi etc. though without having a notification area.