Mageia 4 Gnome Classic Icons

[curioususer]

I have installed Mageia 4 and am using the Gnome Classic or fallbackmode.

However I cannot put any icons on the taskbar, what am I missing?

I also need the hide buttons for the taskbar which I have been using in Mageia 3.

[isadora]

Curioususer, i advise to use meaningful titles. Just Mageia 4 just says nothing.
Try something like "How to get icons on the taskbar", or the likes.

Have a good day.

[martinw]

Fallback mode has been removed from GNOME. The GNOME Classic mode provided in Mageia 4 superficially resembles it, but is lacking a number of features. I don't know whether you can do what you want to do in the new Classic mode - I tried and failed, gave up, and switched to using Cinnamon. Maybe someone who had more success than me will pop up and answer your question.

[rehcla]

Mageia 4 with the MATE Desktop could also be a pleasing solution to your issue!
I have it running on a older desktop and I am quiet happy with it...
After installation you may want to add some packages like system-monitor or some features of the filemanager via the Packagemanager of Mageia.

Greetings

[curioususer]

I selected MATE but it does not start so am not yet sure what module I am missing. Mate is in the repositories but there have to be some dependencies which I have missed.

Similarly Cinnamon does not start but, I shall reinstall and maybe identify what is missing.

[doktor5000]

How and where did you select mate?

[curioususer]

I have installed both MATE and Cinnamon from the software updates menu. I selected Gnome when I did the install.

Maybe I will do better if I do clean install and then select 'other desktops', although I would have thought it would be the same.

As for Classic mode as it is selectable at boot time I would have thought that it should be possible to make it work.

[martinw]

Yes, it's possible to get Classic mode to work, but only to do what the GNOME developers designed it to do. That may not be what *you* want it to do

For Cinnamon, did you select and install the "task-cinnamon" package? It shouldn't be necessary to do a re-install - we just need to figure out which packages you are missing. What exactly happens when you try to start it?