Icon does not appear in the tray

[Jonrysh]

Situation:

• FireTray 0.5.6.1-signed
• KDE Frameworks 5.13.0
• Qt 5.5.0 (built against 5.5.0)
• The xcb windowing system
• Linux Fedora fc22.x86_64

Closing thunderbird with FireTray enabled lets thunderbird continue, but does not put an icon into the system tray. Evidence:

• Start thunderbird
• $ pgrep thunderbird
• 32145
• Close thunderbird
• $ pgrep thunderbird
• 32145
• Start thunderbird
• Quit thunderbird
• $ pgrep thunderbird
• == Nothing ==

This looks like a known problem; but I need a little help building FireTray from source, since I'm not familiar with GitHub or the build method for FireTray.

[Jonrysh]

Well I've been able to build, using instructions in https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/wiki/Build -- also needed to install libappindicator as advised in https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/issues/199 . Now everything works as advertised, except that left-click on the icon doesn't do anything. Center-click and right-click appear to work OK.

Is left-click not doing anything a known problem? Is there a fix?

[jarau-de]

I see similar behaviour on Firefox on Fedora 22 using KDE Plasma Desktop 5. Left mouse button does not work. In Thunderbird there is no tray icon. If I minimize the window, it removes from the task bar and I have no possibility to get Thunderbird into foreground. I don't want to live without Firetray, so please, please make this plugin work again.

[Jonrysh]

@jarau-de: I think you need to rebuild FireTray, using the directions in https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/wiki/Build to get an almost working version.

[lgbaldoni]

Is it supposed to work on plasma5? ISTR they dumped xembed.

[jarau-de]

@Jonrysh: This is exactly what I have done.