Open lunelovehearn opened 4 months ago
I have encountered what I believe is the same problem, but after upgrading Linux Mint 20 to 21.3. Without the system tray icon (and "About" information), I used Synaptic Package Manager to confirm version 0.8.5-2 of Variety is installed, and the version of Cinnamon is 6.0.4 (GTK shows 3.24.33 in System Reports). Of course, missing the system tray icon prevents using the mouse controls to move back/forward in the desktop image, etc. Variety otherwise appears to function normally.
Update: Just upgraded to the latest version (0.8.12~git202401202237.8f6264a~ppa978~ubuntu22.04.1) by using the PPA, but that didn't seem to change anything. Uploading my log file in case it helps. Wondering if the root cause involves AyatanaAppIndicator3 somehow. Thought I don't understand it fully, there was a lot of discussion in the Blog over at Mint regarding Gnome support generally, and things like GTK, Adwaita and libAdwaita, etc. variety.log
Another update: After posting the above update about 5 minutes ago, the system tray icon just 'magically' appeared. (??!!??) To quote Johnny Bravo: Things just keep getting weirder and weirder....
Guess I'll continue to monitor and see if I can provide anything further that might help.
the issue still happens after updating. it used to work fine between august - september but again the system tray icon is gone.
I have also encountered the same problem on my Raspberry Pi 5 system. Details are:-
Variety: 0.8.10 OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) aarch64 Host: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 Kernel: 6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712
I have attached a copy of the log file (verbose) which also shows some errors as follows:-
_ERROR: 2024-10-07 10:09:35,279: server_options_thread() 'Could not fetch Variety server side options' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/init.py", line 525, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 372, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 402, in raw_decode return self.scan_once(s, idx=w(s, idx).end()) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Will keep looking/reinstalling etc. foe any other info. Variety_log.pdf
I just installed on EoS v8.0 (Ubuntu 24.02 LTS) and have no system tray icon.
Edit: I've learned that EoS v8.0 has no facility for displaying system tray indicators.
Consider my comment closed.
Using Debain 12 testing with Budgie Desktop 10.8.2 i have no system tray icon either
this bug still happens so far.
Version of Variety
Describe the bug
for some reason, and no matter how many times I reinstall variety, it still doesn't show the system tray icon. the app works normally, but missing that.
Context
it was working fine until last system update.
To Reproduce
Attach Variety's log file
attached log log.txt
Desktop environment and version
KDE plasma 6.1.2 qt version: 6.7.2 kde frameworks version: 6.3.0 running under wayland
OS name and version
Arch Linux kernel 6.9.7-zen Screenshots
not applicable, as the system tray icon is gone.
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Additional context