Clipman tray icon missing after Mint Cinnamon 21.2 Victoria update

[luzz-dev]

It defaults to the gnome one after the update. Was the clipman tray icon/action removed from the icon pack?

[mtwebster]

No application icons were deliberately removed as far as I know, just action icons.

When I check out clipman, it says it's for wayland - what does it have to do with Cinnamon?

[luzz-dev]

It used to look like this with Mint-Y

Now it looks like this with Mint-Y

Tried rebooting, didn´t work.

[mtwebster]

Where do you get clipman? Like I said, the version I find is for wayland.

[luzz-dev]

sudo apt install xfce4-clipman Maybe I shouldn´t install something that is meant to be used on xfce while using cinnamon?

[mtwebster]

It looks for 'clipman' being in the icon theme. That's never been in any Mint themes.

If that fails it resorts to using 'edit-paste' which was one of the action icons removed for Mint 21.2. It now falls back to using the edit-paste from the Adwaita/gnome theme (like other action icons), which is what you see.

The xfce4-clipman package does install a symbolic icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/clipman-symbolic.svg

But since the program is actually looking up "clipman" specifically: https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-clipman-plugin/blob/master/panel-plugin/main-status-icon.c#L121-L129 it always resorts to edit-paste.

If they changed how they looked up the clipman icon, it would be able to find and use the clipman-symbolic icon without any trouble. But really, they should provide an actual color 'clipman' icon along with a symbolic one. Some themes do already provide one, some don't.

Falling back to an action icon like edit-paste will guarantee something usable is always found, but I'm not much of a fan of Gnome's fullcolor style.

edit: if someone wanted to add 'clipman' icons to Mint-X/Y that'd be fine. But it should still also be provided by the app itself, regardless.