Debian/openbox/tint2: --use-tray-icon/--start-in-tray do not work

[fraform]

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Bug Description

As i wrote in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4089#issuecomment-607298438 the tray icon still not working. Last working signal-desktop version on my system was 1.31.0.

I use Debian 10 + openbox + tint2.

I tried also other bar, but it did not solve the issue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. step one Start signal-desktop with --start-in-tray flag.

2. step two Start signal-desktop with --use-tray-icon flag.

Actual Result: No tray icon appear.

Expected Result: Tray icon showed on my bar.

Screenshots

Platform Info

Signal Version: 1.32.3

Operating System: Debian 10

Linked Device Version:

Link to Debug Log

https://debuglogs.org/fe94d00e95d77e0560cd93440098dc82d9112e26b217b1adc625f063c7f0993f

[LanceHaverkamp]

Same problem. Using Kubuntu 19.10 (KDE Plasma environment), in my case. This used to work properly.

[Peter-JanGootzen]

This is also broken on my machine with Arch Linux, Signal Desktop v1.33.0-beta.5 and Polybar.

[RobDean69]

Yep, same issue here. OpenSUSE tumbleweed, KDE desktop, signal installed via Flatpak.

[uridium]

Same here. The last version that worked was 1.31.0 Linux Mint 19.3 Xfce 4.14 signal-desktop installed from: deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main

[ghost]

It works here on Xubuntu 19.10 - I use the 'Status Notifier Plugin'. There was an issue some time ago when it stopped working with another tray icon plugin, maybe that is related to the problems reported here.

[LanceHaverkamp]

It works here on Xubuntu 19.10 - I use the 'Status Notifier Plugin'. There was an issue some time ago when it stopped working with another tray icon plugin, maybe that is related to the problems reported here.

Interesting...unfortunately that's only an XFCE thing, so not likely a solution for every other desktop environment.

[uridium]

Can confirm - it's working with "Status Notifier Plugin". Before I used two other plugins: "Notification area" and "XApp Status Plugin". Now I have to use three types of notification plugin, because each app uses a different one! Ridiculous.

[jmechnich]

If I understand correctly, at least for tint2 and polybar, the issue is the lack of support for StatusNotifierItem by the panel applications.

For openbox + tint2 I finally found a working solution in a tint2 issue: use snixembed until native support has been added to the panels.

Other relevant links:

• polybar issue wrt SNI
• electron issue wrt missing tray icon on linux

[georf]

I got the same problem with

  Operating System: Linux Mint 19
            Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-96-generic
      Architecture: x86-64

I use current version 1.33.4.

[Peter-JanGootzen]

If I understand correctly, at least for tint2 and polybar, the issue is the lack of support for StatusNotifierItem by the panel applications.

For openbox + tint2 I finally found a working solution in a tint2 issue: use snixembed until native support has been added to the panels.

Using snixembed also works perfectly with Polybar on my machine. :smile:

[nixbits]

Problem remains. Gentoo + fluxbox 1.3.7-r4 + signal 1.34.1 / 1.34.2 Debian + fluxbox 1.3.5-2+b2 + signal 1.34.2 Linux mint (bionic release) + 1.34.2

Overall 5 different installs on 4 different machines

[itkfm]

Used to work on Ubuntu Budgie 19.10. Does not work anymore on 20.04.

[TomasPech]

I can sadly confirm problem also with Linux Mint 20 - Cinnamon. Today I did upgrade from 19.3 where was icon shown OK but in current Mint (mint 20) I can only see that Signal running in tasks but there isn't icon in tray.

Thank for your effort

[mvvvmd]

In Linux Mint 20 (cinnamon) it segfaults on two separate systems I have running. Signal does keep running, just no tray icon.

Jul 14 09:38:15 kernel: [ 2104.460826] xapp-sn-watcher[2977]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f6ddebcb6e4 sp 00007ffd61bcb230 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6400.3[7f6ddeb60000+84000]

Jul 14 09:38:15 kernel: [ 2104.460834] Code: b7 6d db b6 c1 c8 02 3d 49 92 24 09 0f 97 c0 0f b6 c0 48 8d 5c 03 02 4b 0f be 44 3d 00 49 01 c6 48 85 ed 78 05 4d 39 e6 73 5c <45> 0f b6 3e 45 84 ff 74 53 4c 89 f7 e8 0b d5 ff ff 89 c7 8d 80 00

Jul 14 09:38:15 systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 6948/UID 0).

Jul 14 09:38:15 cinnamon-session[1650]: WARNING: t+2075,48798s: Application 'xapp-sn-watcher.desktop' killed by signal 11

Jul 14 09:38:15 systemd-coredump[6955]: Process 2977 (xapp-sn-watcher) of user 1000 dumped core.#012#012Stack trace of thread 2977:#012#0  0x00007f6ddebcb6e4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x876e4)#012#1  0x00007f6ddebcbb90 g_utf8_normalize (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87b90)#012#2  0x00005592d95101c7 n/a (xapp-sn-watcher + 0x131c7)#012#3  0x00007f6dded81f49 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb4f49)#012#4  0x00007f6dded82b3d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb5b3d)#012#5  0x00007f6ddede889d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11b89d)#012#6  0x00007f6dded81f49 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb4f49)#012#7  0x00007f6dded82b3d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb5b3d)#012#8  0x00007f6ddede7eb1 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11aeb1)#012#9  0x00007f6ddede7fec n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11afec)#012#10 0x00007f6dded81f49 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb4f49)#012#11 0x00007f6dded82b3d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb5b3d)#012#12 0x00007f6ddeddd35f n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11035f)#012#13 0x00007f6dded81f49 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb4f49)#012#14 0x00007f6dded81f8d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xb4f8d)#012#15 0x00007f6ddeb95e8e g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x51e8e)#012#16 0x00007f6ddeb96240 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x52240)#012#17 0x00007f6ddeb962e3 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x522e3)#012#18 0x00007f6ddedaffd5 g_application_run (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xe2fd5)#012#19 0x00005592d9506da8 main (xapp-sn-watcher + 0x9da8)#012#20 0x00007f6dddf5f0b3 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x270b3)#012#21 0x00005592d9506e0e _start (xapp-sn-watcher + 0x9e0e)#012#012Stack trace of thread 3000:#012#0  0x00007f6dde04d96f __GI___poll (libc.so.6 + 0x11596f)#012#1  0x00007f6ddeb961ae n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x521ae)#012#2  0x00007f6ddeb962e3 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x522e3)#012#3  0x00007f6ddeb96331 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x52331)#012#4  0x00007f6ddebbf931 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7b931)#012#5  0x00007f6dddce9609 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9609)#012#6  0x00007f6dde05a103 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x122103)#012#012Stack trace of thread 3002:#012#0  0x00007f6dde04d96f __GI___poll (libc.so.6 + 0x11596f)#012#1  0x00007f6ddeb961ae n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x521ae)#012#2  0x00007f6ddeb96533 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x52533)#012#3  0x00007f6ddedebeda n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11eeda)#012#4  0x00007f6ddebbf931 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7b931)#012#5  0x00007f6dddce9609 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9609)#012#6  0x00007f6dde05a103 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x122103)#012#012Stack trace of thread 3001:#012#0  0x00007f6dde04d96f __GI___poll (libc.so.6 + 0x11596f)#012#1  0x00007f6ddeb961ae n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x521ae)#012#2  0x00007f6ddeb962e3 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x522e3)#012#3  0x00007f6ddeee899d n/a (libdconfsettings.so + 0xa99d)#012#4  0x00007f6ddebbf931 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7b931)#012#5  0x00007f6dddce9609 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9609)#012#6  0x00007f6dde05a103 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x122103)#012#012Stack trace of thread 6942:#012#0  0x00007f6dde05a0f5 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x1220f5)#012#1  0x00007f6ddeca10d3 g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x340d3)#012#2  0x4020fe3b9e659400 n/a (n/a + 0x0)

Jul 14 09:38:15 systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-6948-0.service: Succeeded.

[itkfm]

Appears to be working again here (Ubuntu Budgie 20.04) :)

[mvvvmd]

Yes, this seems to have been fixed on Linux Mint 20 (cinnamon) also, works on both my systems.

[georf]

Really! Thanks for this fix

[Peter-JanGootzen]

It now also works with Polybar again!

[jlfranklin]

And Debian 10 Cinnamon, too. Thanks!

[jmechnich]

Works with tint2 as well! Thanks a lot!

[LanceHaverkamp]

What has changed? The official version, from https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main is still version 1.33.4, and it's not working in Kubuntu 20.04 LTS.

[jmechnich]

What has changed? The official version, from https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main is still version 1.33.4, and it's not working in Kubuntu 20.04 LTS.

The current working version is 1.34.4

[itkfm]

$ apt list -a signal-desktop*
Listing... Done
signal-desktop-beta/xenial,now 1.34.4-beta.1 amd64 [installed]

signal-desktop/xenial,now 1.34.4 amd64 [installed]
signal-desktop/xenial 1.33.4 amd64

[LanceHaverkamp]

I'm getting the impression that no one at Signal is tasked with updating that repository; this is not the first time I've had to remind them to update that repo. ;-)

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

@LanceHaverkamp Sorry, what repo is not being updated?

[fraform]

Confirmed that it works again in debian + openbox + tint2. Thanks a lot!

P.S. tell me if i can close the issue

[itkfm]

Guess this could get closed…