Question: AppIndicators not working under Gnome session (Ubuntu 18.04)

[goodwillcoding]

Is there a particular reason why this extensions does not work under the Gnome session? I am guessing the workaround is to uninstall the ubuntu package with it and install (K)StatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support / Top Icons Plus from the gnome extensions site, but I am wondering what is it about the Gnome Session on Ubuntu 18.04 that would make it not work (it does load).

I looked over the extracted gnome shell javascript with few ubuntu modifications like isSystemPinnedExtension and Desktop.is() but it did not look to me like it would prevent the extension from loading

Maybe someone can share some insight.

[rmader]

Same issue on Fedora 27/28. They seem to have figured it out and the problem is a bug in qgnomeplatform https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601033

See https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/issues/140

Edit: oh, thats maybe another issue, sorry

Edit2: this seems to be a duplicate of #119

[goodwillcoding]

@treba123 those are not the same issues ... it works fine under ubuntu session, rather then gnome.

[NicoDuclos]

Maybe #133 can help ?

[sojusnik]

Can confirm that this extension works fine on Ubuntu 18.04, if the preinstalled gnome-shell-extension-appindicator is removed. You have to restart Ubuntu though, a restart of Gnome-Shell isn't sufficient (normally by alt+f2 following by r)

[alfre2v]

Same happened to me with a Ubuntu 18.04 after I installed Gnome desktop. Solution was

apt remove indicator-*

As explained here: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/issues/133#issuecomment-420450258