The icon doesn't appear on the status bar

[ghost]

I have installed the app from the AUR and have enabled it on startup, but the tray icon doesn't show up.

[ngmoviedo]

Can reproduce, although it only happens occasionally. I'm also on Arch and installed it from the AUR. My WM is i3-gaps, and it is the responsible for the initialization of caffeine on startup. The tray is handled by Polybar. As I said, it happens randomly. This is the output of manually starting it from the shell:

/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/caffeine/main.py:59: PyGIWarning: AppIndicator3 was importedwithout specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('AppIndicator3', '0.1') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import AppIndicator3
INFO:caffeine.core:Caffeine is starting up...

(caffeine:2948): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:04:58.170: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

[Inglebard]

Hi, I have the same issue on gnome Manjaro. The actual workaround for me is to modify ".config/autostart/caffeine.desktop" and change "Exec" to Exec=sh -c "sleep 5 && /usr/bin/caffeine". Look like the same bug as : https://github.com/moson-mo/mntray/issues/4

[WhyNotHugo]

Sounds like caffeine starts before the tray, so the tray is unavailable.

The proper fix would likely be for caffeine to retry this on failure.

[WhyNotHugo]

This project has moved to codeberg.

Follow-up for this issue is at https://codeberg.org/WhyNotHugo/caffeine-ng/issues/46