SysTray-Icon always to small (no PB bug?)

[Shardik]

I have tested your program on these different Linux distributions with PB 5.62 and GTK3:

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+  Bodhi Linux 4.5.0 x86 with Moksha 0.2.1
-  ElementaryOS 0.2.1 'Luna' x86 with Pantheon (no tray icon)
+  Kubuntu 14.04 x86 with KDE 4.13.3 and Plasma 4.11.11
-  Kubuntu 16.04.4 x86 with KDE 5.18.0 and Plasma 5.5.5 (tiny tray icon)
+  Linux MATE 16.04 x86 with MATE
+  Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' x86 with Cinnamon
+  Lubuntu 16.04 x86 with LXDE
-  Ubuntu 14.04 x86 with Unity (no tray icon)
-  Ubuntu 16.04 x86 with Unity (no tray icon)
-  Ubuntu 17.10 x86 with Gnome 3 (Unity theme) using Wayland (no tray icon)
-  Ubuntu 17.10 x86 with Gnome 3 (Unity theme) using Xorg (no tray icon)
+  Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 x86 with Budgie
+  Xubuntu 16.04 x86 with Xfce

It seems to be the same situation as in my posting in your thread about broken tray icon events: ElementaryOS and Ubuntu don't support tray icons and KDE 5 / Plasma 5 seem to have problems with tray icons while KDE 4 / Plasma 4 didn't have these problems...

[Kukulkan]

Hi Shardik,

thanks for the test!

I think on Ubuntu it is because of the unity system settings:

This is what helped for me in the past:

1) Run the following command in your console window to get the current settings:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist

2) Now, add the program name to the list. So if it was ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype'] before, make it look like this:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'myApp']"

Alternatively, run this in your console window in order to show all kind of systray icons:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

Does this help for your unity and/or ubuntu systems?

[Shardik]

Does this help for your unity and/or ubuntu systems?

I have tested your modification on Ubuntu 14.04 x86 and Ubuntu 16.04 x86 (both with Unity). Both distributions don't find your specified scheme:

Keine derartiges Schema "com.canonical.Unity.Panel"

I have done Google searches and have found only hacks, Ubuntu source code manipulations with recompilations and specific inofficial PPAs for displaying systray icons. But to be fair: Canonical said already 2010 officially "Farewell to the notification area"...

[Kukulkan]

Hi Shardik,

thanks very much for your testing! Sad to hear. So this is one of many reasons for many people using an alternative desktop solution like KDE, XFCE etc. I never had success with Unity desktop at all - Running KDE all the time (currently KDE Neon). Not perfect, but much better for me and my needs.

Kind Regards, and have a nice long weekend!