debian/changelog

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ mate-accessibility (1.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   [ Colomban Wendling ]
   * mate-accessibility-spd-french: Add Conflicts: on mate-a11y-full-fr
     to fix downgrade.
+  * mate-accessibility-common: Add a workaround for missing MATE
+    panel applets.
 
  -- Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud@hypra.fr>  Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:04:59 +0100
 

debian/mate-accessibility-common.install

@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/01_enable_a11y.gschema.override
 usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/01_enable_accessibility_theme.gschema.override
 etc/X11/Xsession.d/01speech-dispatcher-pulseaudio-cleanup-with-session
 etc/X11/Xsession.d/89atk-adaptor
+etc/X11/Xsession.d/93mate-panel-workaround
 po/mate-accessibility.mo usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/

etc/X11/Xsession.d/93mate-panel-workaround

+# This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
+
+TOPLEVEL_SCHEMA=org.mate.panel.toplevel
+TOPLEVEL_PATH=/org/mate/panel/toplevels
+
+# Temporarily resize the panel to refresh the applets and try and work
+# around https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/897.
+(for i in 1 2 3; do
+	# give some time for mate-panel to start up
+	sleep 10
+	panel_pid="$(pgrep -u "$USER" -n -x mate-panel)" || continue
+
+	export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= /proc/$panel_pid/environ | cut -d= -f2-)"
+	for panel in $(gsettings get org.mate.panel toplevel-id-list | tr -d "[',]"); do
+		size=$(gsettings get ${TOPLEVEL_SCHEMA}:${TOPLEVEL_PATH}/$panel/ size)
+		gsettings set ${TOPLEVEL_SCHEMA}:${TOPLEVEL_PATH}/$panel/ size $((size + 1))
+		gsettings set ${TOPLEVEL_SCHEMA}:${TOPLEVEL_PATH}/$panel/ size $size
+	done
+
+	break  # it's done, break out of the retry loop
+done) &