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wlr/taskbar on multi-monitor: icons not displayed for apps launched before waybar
Wayland compositor: sway (v 1.9) or Hyprland (0.41.1) [error happens with both]
Waybar version: 0.10.3
I have 2 monitors (output LVDS-1 and HDMI-A-1), and the exact same waybar configuration is applied to both. Specifically for wlr/taskbar:
wlr/taskbar config
"wlr/taskbar": {
"format": "{icon}",
"icon-size": 24,
"on-click": "activate",
"on-click-middle": "close",
},
Observations:
- If waybar has already started, all new apps that I open will display the correct icon on any of the waybar taskbars on both monitors.
- If waybar starts later, with an app already open, the icon is only displayed correctly in one of the taskbars (the one in HDMI-A-1), and not on the other (there is an empty space with no icon, though it works when clicked and tooltips are displayed).
Logs:
By using log-level trace, I see that icons are found and "Loaded" for all open applications, but only are "now visible" on the HDMI-A-1 output. When the icon is "loaded" for the application on LVDS-1, it isn't "now visible". See examples below:
Example on HDMI-A-1:
Task (4) overwriting app_id 'unknown' with 'firefox-esr'
Task (4) Mozilla Firefox Private Browsing [firefox-esr] <amif> Loaded icon 'firefox-esr'
Task (4) Mozilla Firefox Private Browsing [firefox-esr] <amif> entered output 0x5d274d223ef0
Task (4) Mozilla Firefox Private Browsing [firefox-esr] <amif> now visible on HDMI-A-1
Task (4) Mozilla Firefox Private Browsing [firefox-esr] <amif> changed
Example on LVDS-1:
Task (7) overwriting app_id 'unknown' with 'thunar'
Task (7) waybar - Thunar [thunar] <amif> Loaded icon 'org.xfce.thunar'
Task (7) waybar - Thunar [thunar] <amif> entered output 0x5d274d2bc930
Task (7) waybar - Thunar [thunar] <amif> changed
As you can see, on LVDS-1, the line "now visible on LVDS-1" is missing. I think this could help find the issue.
I have attached the trace logs in case it is helpful.
Operations performed:
- Run sway with 2 apps open on each monitor (4 apps in total, foot and thunar on LVDS-1, firefox and geany on HDMI-A-1).
- Start waybar.
- Move the cursor to the LVDS-1 monitor (on thunar).
- Open a new foot terminal (icon is correctly rendered for this app on LVDS-1).
- Kill waybar.
I will provide any information required to help understand and fix this bug.