Whenever xchat is started, it creates two icons in gnomes notification area. Closing the window makes both icons disappear. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: > emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc4-r6 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.19-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac alsa apm arts avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar cdda cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl httpd iconv icq ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jdk jpeg jpeg2k libg++ libnotify libwww live logrotate mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl stream svga tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vim vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
are you sure you don't have xchat-systray installed too?
(In reply to comment #1) > are you sure you don't have xchat-systray installed too? > Yes I had... but it worked with the previous version of xchat. Unmerging xchat-systray also solved the problem. I thought it was just a plugin, not something incompatible...
xchat-2.8.0 now includes it's own tray icon, hence you get two tray icons. xchat-systray has some more feature, this is why don't block them. emerge xchat should print an informational message about this, when you have xchat-systray installed.
You can disable the builtin icon under Preferences -> Chatting -> Alerts -> Enable system tray icon
