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I have a Gnome session definition with XMonad as windows manager where I start the gnome-panel explicitly. The session definition looks like this:

[GNOME Session]
Name=GNOME + XMonad
RequiredComponents=xmonad;gnome-flashback-init;gnome-flashback;gnome-panel;nautilus-classic;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Clipboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Mouse;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.ScreensaverProxy;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings;

With this setup in one english language Ubuntu 18.10 installation the gnome-panel pops up like this:

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I tried all applets available but none is supplying the set of items combined in one applet that I see on another german Ubuntu 18.10 installation starting the Gnome shell (gnome-panel), this is the appet layout that I really want:

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The above applet contains all the relevant pieces in on applet.

I think both are called "Indicator Applet Complete" but does anybody know why one version is only showing 2 icons while the other shows all icons?

Konrad Eisele
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First of all GNOME Panel is still GNOME Panel, not GNOME Shell.
I have no gnome-shell executables in process list while selected GNOME FlashBack session from GDM. The GNOME Flashback (Metacity) has all indicators in place automatically.

As far I can see on clean minimal 18.10 install - the xmonad package provides session file:

$ dpkg -S ".session" | grep "session$"
gdm3: /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-login.session
ubuntu-session: /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/ubuntu.session
xmonad: /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback-xmonad.session # <---

and the /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback-xmonad.session contains the following (differ from your only by nautilus-classic):

$ cat /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback-xmonad.session
[GNOME Session]
Name=GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)
RequiredComponents=gnome-flashback-init;gnome-flashback;gnome-panel;xmonad;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Clipboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Mouse;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.ScreensaverProxy;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings;

In GDM3 this session is labeled as GNOME Flashback (Xmonad).

So I installed the components mentioned above with:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Even after installation of full unity-desktop package I can't get all indicators in place automatically.

But I can get them manually:

systemctl --user start indicator-power.service
systemctl --user start indicator-keyboard.service
systemctl --user start indicator-sound.service
systemctl --user start indicator-datetime.service
systemctl --user start indicator-session.service

# and optionally
systemctl --user start indicator-application.service
systemctl --user start indicator-bluetooth.service
systemctl --user start indicator-messages.service
systemctl --user start indicator-printers.service

So I have:

manual load

N0rbert
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