My system is Xfce 4.10 (installed from https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10) running on Ubuntu 12.04. Both Xfce 4.10 and the OS are fully updated. I have described the problem here (http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7233) and here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2003403). I hope that is adequate. I marked the component as Notification Area because that is where the System Load Indicator is displayed.
I am also affected by this bug and have already reported it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-indicator-plugin/+bug/1004870 Here is a screenshot of the problem. Note that the hardware sensors indicator is also not being displayed correctly; I have to click the icon to view temperatures instead of having them displayed directly in the panel. http://www.mezgrman.de/scr/MTsvBz.png
in case it matters, the same problem exists under Xfce 4.08 (with ubuntu 12.04.)
I can confirm the problem in Xubuntu 12.10 / Xfce 4.10.
multiload indicator devs pointed the problem as an indicator-plugin's fault from the bugs filed on their tracker, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+bug/1014494
Moving to correct component.
Thank you for the report (and sorry for the delay, I only found it today). It is indeed a bug in the indicator plugin. Version 0.4 simply assumes that all icons are square. I will try to add support for non-square icons back. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it looks - it seems to conflict with icon scaling that was added recently. Note, that rectangular icons will not be fully supported because in narrow vertical panels icons like the ones used in multiload-plugin will simply not fit. A new branch in the repo has this error partially "fixed". The icon is still small but at least there is no empty space added next to it.
Should be now fixed in andrzejr/tmp3 git branch. Testing appreciated.
Hi Andrzej, I think the fix should be to scale icons that are too high (on horizontal panels) or too wide (on vertical panels) to fit onto the panel, but then without taking the other dimension (width on horizontal, height on vertical panels) into account. Thanks for working on this! Michael
(In reply to Andrzej from comment #7) > Should be now fixed in andrzejr/tmp3 git branch. Testing appreciated. Sorry to ask but what is the address of the git server so that I can test. The bug still exists.
(In reply to flg from comment #9) > (In reply to Andrzej from comment #7) > > Should be now fixed in andrzejr/tmp3 git branch. Testing appreciated. > > Sorry to ask but what is the address of the git server so that I can test. > The bug still exists. Code is on git.xfce.org But there have benn several releases since. I suggest just checking the latest release.
Sorry I wasn't clear. The version embedded in latest Xubuntu version sill shows up the issue. I was trying to fetch Andrzej's code to check if it works for me. git clone git://git.xfce.org/andrzejr/tmp3 does not work. But it is likely to be a network access issue on my side. Can you just please confirme this is the right command/address to fetch this code ?
flg, can you tell me what is your: - xubuntu version, - xfce4-indicator-plugin version, and describe the issue you are seeing? For your information, andrzejr/tmp3 branch was merged in xfce4-indicator-plugin-1.0.0 (gtk2 version). The mechanism of handling the icon sizing has then been changed again in xfce4-indicator-plugin-2.x.y (gtk3 version).
Xubuntu version: 13.10 64 bits Plugin version: 0.5.0-2ubuntu2 "System Load Indicator" (aka indicator-multiload) version: 0.3 The problem is that the "system load indicator" widgt has a fixed width in the indicator plugin (in the Xfce panel). Thus, increasing the number of resources or increasing the "System monitor width" config parameter leads to reducing the height of the graphs (instead of extending the width).
Seems like Xubuntu guys have not upgraded the plugin to version 1.0 in 13.10. In 14.04 they are going straight to version 2.x, which should fix this issue as well (albeit differently).