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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mguessan

ubuntu 20.04 tray only

Open kr1979 opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments
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On Ubuntu 18.04 Davmail startet in the systray only. After updating to Ubuntu 20.04 it is not possible any more to start Davmail to tray. Would it be possble to get that behavior back? I find it quite inconvenient tha Davmail opens a window, that you can only minimize, instead of get rid of completely.

kr1979 avatar Apr 27 '20 16:04 kr1979

Tray icon support depends on OS support. It's working fine on KUbuntu 20.04.

Under Ubuntu Gnome, tray icons are officially deprecated. You can manage to restore tray icons with additional packages, see: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/linuxsetup.html

According to a quick test, on Ubuntu 20 we need gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus and SWT (native Java tray support seem broken).

mguessan avatar Apr 28 '20 07:04 mguessan

@mguessan what SWT (package or functionality) are you referring to?

I am on a ubuntu focal system and the tray symbol just doesn't work. and the davmail log tells me:

davmail  - OS Name: Linux Java version: 11.0.11 64 System tray not supported Current Desktop: ubuntu:GNOME

there are also quite a few SWT packages...

UPDATE: it works now.

  • the top-icons-plus extension was not visible at first and then not activated.
    once activated, the icon was visible.
  • installed several libswt-gtk java deb packages, which satisfy the requirements

Qu-Bit avatar Nov 16 '21 10:11 Qu-Bit