Bug 179324 – Gnome notification area randomly misplacing KDE tray icons

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Gerry 2007-05-21 14:53:00 UTC]

Sometimes, tray icons from KDE applications (such as amarok, for example) aren't placed properly in the Gnome notification area when running Gnome, but are in stead placed either at the very top left of the *screen*, or at a random-ish position on top of the desktop (gravitating towards the top left).  When this happens there is a blank space in the notification area where the icon should have been.  This empty space doesn't respond to anything, but the randomly placed icon on the other hand behaves exactly as if it was in the notification area (can be clicked etc).  It seems random if this happens or not, but starting and quitting the KDE application a few times usually works (either for fixing the problem or making it appear).

This is using Gnome 2.16.2 (latest stable one in portage).


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Gnome (I use 2.16.2, haven't tested other versions).
2. Start a KDE application that has a tray icon (eg amarok, but others work too).
3. If the tray icon appears correctly, quit and try again.

Actual Results:  
Tray icon sometimes placed randomly.


Expected Results:  
Tray icon should always appear in the notification area.


# emerge info
*** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead
Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:00:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
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: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-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/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/"
LANG="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS=""
LINGUAS="no nb no_NO nb_NO"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="16bit 7zip S3TC X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 ao aotuv apache2 applet artworkextra asf audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps ccache cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cvs dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds elf emboss emul-linux-x86 encode exif expat fam fame fat ffmpeg firefox flac flash fontconfig fortran gcj gd gdb gdbm gif gimp glitz glut glx gmp gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile gzip h323 hal icecast iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 intl ipv6 jabber jack jack-tmpfs java javascript joystick jpeg json kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kqemu lame lcms ldap libcaca libg++ linuxthreads-tls logitech-mouse lua lzo mad matroska md5sum mhash midi mikmod ming mjpeg mmap mng mod modplug mono mozbranding mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mpm-prefork msn mudflap musepack music musicbrainz ncurses new-login nforce2 nls no nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia nvram objc ocaml ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp openssh openssl oss pam paste64 pcre pdf perl php physfs png pnp povray ppds pppd python qemu-fast qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection rtc samba scanner sdk sdl sdl-sound session sharedext sharedmem sid slang smp sms sndfile speex spell spl sse-filters sse3 ssl startup-notification stencil-buffer subtitles subversion svg sysfs tcpd tga theora thesaurus threads tiff timidity transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos vorbis wacom wma wma123 wxwindows x264 xanim xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip 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" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical cron daemon dev dllaunch envparser find fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit logfile netprobe ngc4 pause pidfile reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog unneeded provide" INPUT_DEVICES="joystick keyboard mouse wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="no nb no_NO nb_NO" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2008-06-29 18:13:31 UTC]

Is this still valid? I don't have now amarok installed, but, in the past, I didn't suffer this problem

Thanks

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-01-19 20:47:40 UTC]

please get back to us (per last comment).

[Comment 3 Gerry 2009-01-21 22:11:32 UTC]

This bug report is almost two years old.  I no longer use Gnome, or Gentoo for that matter, so I can't test this.  Sorry.