Views contextual link ("edit view" link) does not show on view displayed as page

As far as I understand, contextual links can only be attached to blocks (including the "Main page content" block). I don't believe contextual links can be attached to an embedded view.

Make sure you haven't disabled the block wrapper div in Mothership (I believe it's disabled by default) as that causes problems w/ contextual links as well.

Make sure

<?php if ($action_links): ?><ul class="action-links"><?php print render($action_links); ?></ul><?php endif; ?>

in your page.tpl.php

@betovarg , Another weird reason is presence of any wrapper div to your $content . Remove any div for $content

<div WITH SOME CLASS/ID><?php print render($page['content']); ?></div>

instead use print render($page['content']); only

In theme settings "Remove .view" needs to be unchecked - that should work to see the settings-wheel on the views again.

For me the contextual links were missing for 2 reasons:

1. I was not printing the $classes variable for the page.
2. I was not rendering the $title_suffix variable.

The title should be rendered as follows, and the $classes variable should be printed in a class attribute for an element which wraps the title. Eg.

<div id="page" class="<?php print $classes; ?>">
    <?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
    <?php if ($title): ?>
      <h1><?php print $title; ?></h1>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?php print render($title_suffix); ?>
    ...
</div>

an alternative fix added to the dev version today - its a rewrite of the javascript file & do not need to add a view class
this also fix the general issue around contextual links that dosnt work ;)