{"id":231,"date":"2016-10-07T04:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/?p=231"},"modified":"2016-10-07T04:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:07:05","slug":"one-way-to-fix-the-panel-not-clickable-issue-in-cinnamon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"One way to fix the „panel not clickable“-issue in Cinnamon."},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to operating systems, my preferred choice is the popular Linux Mint with either MATE or Cinnamon as the desktop environment. Recently, Mint 18 has been released, so I already upgraded two of my machines running Mint. Everything went fine with the first one (using MATE) – something I was not<\/em> used to when I still ran stock Ubuntu, which seemed to always break something with an upgrade.<\/p>\n

However, the second machine (using Cinnamon) had one small but very nasty bug after the upgrade: The panel wasn’t clickable anymore. It seemed to work just fine (as in „not crashing“), but didn’t respond to any mouse clicks. A quick search around the web showed that this bug apparently has ocurred in the past already<\/a> – and should long be fixed. I suppose that there are several possible errors which lead to this behaviour. Since I could neither find any current posts about this topic nor a fix like mine, here’s what I did:<\/p>\n

First I tried to log in with a different user (with an empty home directory) – the panel worked just fine, so it was clear that *something* in the config files in my home directory must have been messed up. After trying a lot of different things I could isolate the error to ~\/.config\/dconf<\/em>. This directory contains (at least in my case) one binary file, which is roughly similar to the registry on MS Windows. At this point, I can’t restrain myself from asking why the f*** someone would want to take one of the biggest flaws from one operating system and implement it into another. Argh!<\/p>\n

Anyway, to edit that binary file you need to install the package dconf-editor<\/em>. I assume you know how to do that. Since you need to at least launch a terminal although your panel is dysfunctional, I should add that – at least in my case – the applications menu still worked when opened using the Super key (the one that usually has a Windows logo on it). If that doesn’t work for you, using ssh -X<\/em> might be an option. Or you could somehow create a launcher on your desktop.<\/p>\n

In the dconf-editor, you need to find the value desktop.ibus.panel.show<\/em>. On my computer, it was set to 2 – setting it to 0 immediately solved the problem. There is probably also a fancy command-line only way to do this.<\/p>\n

I must admit that I do not completely understand what went wrong in the first place, yet the fact that it seems – in my case – to be related to IBus explains why there aren’t more people with the same issue right now, which could be expected on a popular Linux distribution with a popular desktop environment: As far as I know, IBus isn’t installed by default. The reason I have it installed is probably related to the input method for Japanese. (Don’t ask…)<\/p>\n

Figuring this out took me some time, so I wanted to share my solution, hoping I can save other people some time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to operating systems, my preferred choice is the popular Linux Mint with either MATE or Cinnamon as the desktop environment. Recently, Mint 18 has been released, so I already upgraded two of my machines running Mint. Everything … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24,25],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-articles","tag-cinnamon","tag-linux","tag-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dj6dp.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}