System tray menus are sometimes blank

[EbonJaeger]

Description

Sometimes when opening the menu of a system tray indicator, the menu entries have no text. They're still there, and clicking them still works, just no text is displayed. So far I haven't found a reliable way to reproduce it. My initial thought is that it's related to items in the menu changing, but that's mostly just a guess at this point.

Budgie version

10.8

Operating System

Solus 4.4

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Right click network-manager indicator
2. Disconnect from or connect to a network
3. Re-open indicator menu

Actual result

Got it to happen once after disconnecting from the network:

Expected result

Additional information

No response

[serebit]

Saw this myself with nm-applet, so marking as verified. Will investigate.

[dassuan]

Same here also with copyQ applet.

[jahoyne]

budgie-panel --replace &disown, restored the invisible text to the menu here.

AFAIR, I previously logged off and back on, and then did a full reboot with the problem persisting—although it doesn't make sense to me why replacing the current panel is any different from initially creating it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Spoke too soon, it reoccurred, but again was cured with replacing the panel

[Yannnd]

Same here, but then with the systray icon of Variety, the rest is okay.

After issuing budgie-panel --replace &disown I got the texts back. Though, almost 2 minutes after returning to the prompt, doing nothing at all in the mean time, a message GLib-GIO-WARNING appeared in the terminal. Immediately tried the Variety menu: the texts had disappeared again. Tried the budgie-panel command several times, consequently getting the same results. Even after logging out and/or reboot exactly the same happened.

Terminal output:

yannnd@solus-box ~ $ budgie-panel --replace &disown
[1] 1943
yannnd@solus-box ~ $ ** Message: 17:10:09.543: libsession.vala:45: DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID not set, session registration may be broken (not running budgie-desktop?)

(budgie-panel:1943): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:10:09.559: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion 'GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed

(budgie-panel:1943): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 17:10:09.685: Received property WindowId with type i does not match expected type u in the expected interface

yannnd@solus-box ~ $ 
(budgie-panel:1943): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 17:11:01.436: Dropping signal PropertiesChanged of type (sa{sv}as) since the type from the expected interface is ()

yannnd@solus-box ~ $ 

[serebit]

Reproduces perfectly with Variety, thanks for the tip.

[JoshStrobl]

Thanks @serebit for the fix.