Bug 563032 – Plasma 5: No Tray Icons for most Apps

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Alex Barker 2015-10-14 04:08:24 UTC]

Despite having pidgin-indicator sni-qt libappindicator:3 and :2 installed and "activating the legacy-systray and GUI-specific (gtk2, gtk3, qt4) USE flags for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop," most applications still don't have a tray icon.  Most notably qbittorrent and pidgin.

Reproducible: Always




Please don't mark stable.

Portage 2.2.23 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.2.3-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.2.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_950_@_3.07GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    24686892 total,  16206696 free
KiB Swap:    2000088 total,   2000088 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.0::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo, 3.5.0-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.3.2-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.18.2::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.9::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.2::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.21-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

luman
    location: /var/lib/layman/luman
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

local_overlay
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 1

hasufell
    location: /var/lib/layman/hasufell
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

java
    location: /var/lib/layman/java
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

miramir
    location: /var/lib/layman/miramir
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

open-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/open-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

proaudio
    location: /var/lib/layman/proaudio
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

science
    location: /var/lib/layman/science
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

steam-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

torbrowser
    location: /var/lib/layman/torbrowser
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

tox-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/tox-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

wtk
    location: /var/lib/layman/wtk
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="${CONFIG_PROTECT} /etc /etc/idea/conf /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j10"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr berkdb branding btrfs bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cifs cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl custom-cflags cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faac fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gif glamor gnutls gpm gsm gstreamer gtk hal hfs iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lame lcms legacy-systray libnotify lm_sensors lto lzma mad mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib musepack mysql ncurses networkmanager nfs nls nptl nptlonl nsplugin ntfs offensive ogg openal opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf phonon pic plasma png policykit popcnt ppds python3 qml qt3support qt4 qt5 rar rdesktop rdp readline samba sdl seccomp session speex spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification steamgames_source_engine svg system-sqlite tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vdpau vnc vorbis vpx wavpack widgets wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xfs xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="access_compat actions alias auth_basic authn_core authz_core authz_host autoindex dir env filter log_config mime negotiation rewrite setenvif unique_id unixd" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight harness ide java nb php profiler websvccommon" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4 php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22" SANE_BACKENDS="artec_eplus48u" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-10-14 13:41:46 UTC]

qbittorrent is handled by sni-qt. Could you please add the output of 'emerge -pv sni-qt', 'qlist sni-qt', and check if there's a directory in /tmp like "sni-qt_qbittorrent_xxxxx_yyyyyy" when qbittorrent is running?

[Comment 2 Alex Barker 2015-10-14 14:54:51 UTC]

I just went back and reviewed and it does show up under the status and notification submenu. The icon is just white, which makes it almost impossible to see on the off white background.

[Comment 3 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-10-14 14:55:41 UTC]

Can you attach a screenshot please?

[Comment 4 Alex Barker 2015-10-15 04:50:26 UTC]

Created attachment 414584 [details]
Screenshot

The pidgin icon shows up down at the bottom in that empty space, but you cant click it to display the window.

[Comment 5 Alex Barker 2015-11-07 18:21:47 UTC]

Just an update, this still does not work.  Kwallet does not have a tray icon making it impossible to manage.  I am also having a hard time comprehending that plasma 5 is being slated for stable release.

[Comment 6 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-11-08 14:17:36 UTC]

(In reply to Alex Barker from comment #5)
> Just an update, this still does not work.  Kwallet does not have a tray icon
> making it impossible to manage.  I am also having a hard time comprehending
> that plasma 5 is being slated for stable release.

I suspect you are suffering a different issue. qbittorrent is handled by sni-qt which tests OK. The optional kwalletmanager tray icon doesn't use the legacy methods at all.

[Comment 7 Andreas Sturmlechner 2016-03-13 11:06:32 UTC]

The systray situation should be solved by Plasma-5.5.5, or do you still have problems?

[Comment 8 Alex Barker 2016-03-18 06:42:54 UTC]

I am still seeing two icons for pidgin.  Only one of the icons works to click.  Now that I check, the left click problem has been solved.  I switched off the default theme to something darker and that worked around the white icon problem with qBittorrent. qBittorrent does still only display in the status & notification tray instead of the icon tray, although I don't know if that was intentional.  I was using the normal tray with KDE 4.

[Comment 9 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2016-06-06 07:29:47 UTC]

*** Bug 585138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-06-16 18:55:46 UTC]

Which USE flags are kde-frameworks/knotifications and kde-plasma/plasma-workspace built with?

[Comment 11 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-07-27 14:49:22 UTC]

Please reopen if you are still having issues. There have been a lot of upstream fixes in 5.6 which is now stable, and we also made some downstream packaging improvements.