Systray icons do not appear on startup.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Run tint2 on startup.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Startup application icons (i.e., network manager, sound applet, redshiftgui, 
etc.)should appear in the systray but they do not appear. Sometimes one or two 
appear, or one appears with a garbled icon. I have to kill tint2 and restart it 
to get the icons to appear in the systray.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using tint2-0.11 on Ubuntu Lucid. This problem started when I upgraded from 
tint2 version 0.7.1

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by amad...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2010 at 3:04

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Do you use some kind of compositing manager (i.e. do you have real transparency 
or fake transparency)? You can see on tint2 startup on the commandline the 
output, whether you're using real transparency...
How do you start tint2 in the beginning (with gnome autostart?)?
This seems like a bad combination of your graphics driver and xorg-server 
version...

Original comment by Andreas.Fink85 on 24 Sep 2010 at 6:03

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I use compiz, with some sort of transparency. I start tint2 in my startup 
applications. But everything worked fine with version 0.7.1 Problems only 
started when I upgraded.

Original comment by amad...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2010 at 5:43

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Yes, and between 0.7 and 0.11 we've changed to use real transparency if a 
composite manager is available. And with real transparency the drawing of 
systemtray icons is completely different than with fake transparency. We've had 
already once the problem with this kind of behaviour, and actually I've thought 
that it was fixed the last time, but maybe we've introduced a change somewhere 
which brought the problem back...

If you can upgrade your xorg-server then try first this if this does not help, 
maybe you can come to #tint2 on irc to discuss the problem there (but then you 
need to be able to compile from sources, coz I cannot reproduce the problem 
with my graphic card and my xorg-server version)

Original comment by Andreas.Fink85 on 28 Sep 2010 at 11:45

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Sorry it took me a while to get back to this, but I think I have solved the 
problem. It seems that adding a sleep delay to my tint2 startup command has 
everything loading properly. The command I'm using is sh -c "sleep 5; exec 
tint2". Since this delay has fixed the problem I'm not sure if that confirms or 
rules out this being a graphics driver/xorg-server problem. Hopefully this info 
will help anyone else experiencing the same thing.

Original comment by amad...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2010 at 12:51

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actually I changed some stuff with systray rendering. Can you try the newest 
svn version without any delay and look if it works?

Original comment by Andreas.Fink85 on 14 Oct 2010 at 5:16

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Original comment by Andreas.Fink85 on 2 Dec 2010 at 7:37

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Just to say that I've experienced the same symptoms with Compiz and Tint2, 
using both lxsession-lite and gnome-session. I worked around the problem under 
gnome-session by firing up tint2 and compiz from .desktop files in 
/etc/xdg/autostart with the key X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization set in 
both cases. The ensures the DE is in place before nm-applet et al fire up...

It would be nice if tint2 supported GNOMES XDG extensions properly 
(http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession) via XSMP signalling. 
That way, X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=panel and X-GNOME-Provides=panel could be set 
to better integrate Tint2 as a GNOME-panel replacement. In which case. if the 
GConf key /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel was also set to 
Tint2, it would fully integrated into the DE... ;)

Original comment by nat.hu...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2010 at 2:17

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I've just upgraded to latest SVN version and it works fine for me now. All 
icons appear consistently when running Tint2 from a .desktop file with the 
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase key set to "Application" (i.e. same phase as nm-applet 
etc).

Thank you and apologies for the convolution in the last comment ;D I still 
think it'd be cool if Tint2 integrated with GNOMEs session management more 
gracefully, though! :D 

Original comment by nat.hu...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2010 at 2:34

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Original comment by mrovi9...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2015 at 5:47

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