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Hidden tray icons #2846

Open mbnoimi opened 10 years ago

mbnoimi commented 10 years ago

Cinnamon 2.0.14 Linux mint 16 x64

Most Qt based applications unable to show their tray icons OR they hidden suddenly without any error or notification message!

P.S. I noticed that this kind of applications shows two entries in the panel as show in the below screenshot one for the tray and the other for the main window of the application (for example Viber is minimized to the tray but its panel entry shows while Qt-Transmission isn't minimized to the tray so you can see the two entries I mentioned before)

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stefan-niedermann commented 10 years ago

hi there!

are there any news on this issue? I think i have exactly this problem with the owncloud-client (see referenced issue). it's written in qt, i think the icon disappeared after the first time i changed the theme, but reactivating the default theme didn't bring it back. because there are no other ways to start the owncloud-client gui, this is huge problem for me.

best regards

collinss commented 10 years ago

I wonder if this is related to #2566.

ivoras commented 9 years ago

Same here, owncloud-client and Pidgin on Ubuntu. It worked fine on Xfce.

ManIVIctorious commented 9 years ago

I experience this with dropbox aswell (also qt-based)

mbnoimi commented 9 years ago

This issue still occurs in Linux Mint 17.1 too

jlu5 commented 9 years ago

I'm getting this with Cinnamon git master... It's really annoying; Dropbox's tray icon just refuses to show up entirely!

tp0 commented 9 years ago

Getting this with Dropbox (qt) on startup. If I start it manually or with a delay (set in Startup Applications), it shows up.

brub2 commented 9 years ago

Here (Cinnamon 2.6 + Mint 17.1) Dropbox icon is always ok after a fresh boot, but sometimes the icon is hidden if cinnamon is restarted (or logout/login). I have a small script to stop and restart dropbox in these cases.

ScoreUnder commented 8 years ago

You should really just cut out a solid colour when redacting.

humkins commented 8 years ago

Since today, I have the same issue on Linux Mint 17.3 (Cinnamon). Dropbox, Skype, Viber, Software Update icons are not visible. Any suggestion what to check?

ghost commented 7 years ago

Same for me @gumkins, after restart cinnamon some icons are missing, not matter if they are indicators or status icons. The transmission icon is one of then... If i go to transmission settings and i click in don't show tray icon, to unselected this option, and then i click again in the same option, to be selected, the icon will show on the panel again. So, the problem appear to be related to signals, they don't listen a signal disconnection when cinnamon restart, maybe because it's not emitted a signal disconnection on a restart and when cinnamon start again, they don`t know that they need to send the tray information again.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Issue open in Qt: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63065 Workaroud of the ubuntu developers: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/pull/97 Issue in the ubuntu scope: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/issues/75

ghost commented 5 years ago

It would be nice were this four-year old bug, affecting many programs - Dropbox, Flameshot, owncloud, Pidgin - and at a basic level were fixed for Mint 19.1.

ghost commented 5 years ago

The problem persists in the version of Cinnamon shipped with Mint 19.1.

I wonder the Ubuntu workarounds - the ones reported by @ghost - might be incorporated into Mint? Still, it sees from the link ghost provided to gt that a qt commit has fixed the problem, at least for applications that use a suitably new version of qt (or something like that, anyway).