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Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
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mkchromecast -t shows no icon on Plasma 5.14.5 #242

Open CallumDev opened 5 years ago

CallumDev commented 5 years ago

Using Arch Linux aur package, python-pyqt5 is installed.

Console output:

Mkchromecast v0.3.8.1
Selected backend: /usr/bin/parec
Selected audio codec: mp3
Default bitrate used: 192k
Default sample rate used: 44100Hz.
polyzen commented 5 years ago

AUR package maintainer here. The tray icon works for me with just i3wm.

CallumDev commented 5 years ago

It has occurred to me I don't currently have a working Chromecast. Does it work on i3wm when there is no Chromecast present? If not then it's more of a documentation thing than a behaviour issue (though a no chromecast icon would be nice)

polyzen commented 5 years ago

The icon shows this when no casting device is found, even if you have neither of the casting deps (python-pychromecast or python-soco) installed.

FWIW I understand there is some issue with Qt5 tray icons. Another program I package with a Qt5 GUI just shows a blank space in the tray for me ^^.

muammar commented 5 years ago

@polyzen that is correct. I haven't had time to find a solution for that problem yet.

djerius commented 5 years ago

I had a similar symptom which turned out to be that the default icon is black and it was displaying against a black background, so was invisible. I was able to find it by randomly right-clicking in the Gnome 3 panel and using the "Preferences" option to change the color to white. It can also be set using the colors attribute in ~/.config/mkchromecast/mkchromecast.cfg:

[settings]
colors = white
oniGino commented 4 years ago

I am having the same problem running on gentoo

Anyeos commented 1 year ago

LOL, same here, the icon is showing but I don't noticed it because I am using a Dark Theme on Gnome Shell. And the icon is black with the dark background and it is barely visible. But it is working and showing.