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No Tray Icon on 18.04
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know a fix? Even with Top Icons Plus it's missing.
I installed 18.04 in a Vbox and I see the problem, too. Do you still see icons for applications like Dropbox?
Basically, I don't think using the tray icon for new code is a good idea. At least on the LInux side, both Fedora/Gnome3 and Ubuntu have been moving away from the tray icon/statusicon abstraction since long. Gnome3 has now dropped the legacy support for it, and Ubuntu will be using Gnome3 from now on. So, a perhaps better idea is to create a regular GUI app with the necessary controls.
And, on linux, add systemctl --user support to manage the service. But that's another story...
@leamas you are right. I have just read that Gnome dropped the system tray. Creating a GUI makes lots of sense now. I have started something but my knowledge on UIs is limited so it will take some time for me. I have just logged in Gnome and I saw that Dropbox has a working icon but I suppose that is something rather complicated to do.
Now, this is more of a personal opinion:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/will-you-miss-gnome-legacy-tray
My gut reaction is the same as yours. That said, I've stick to using gnome3 and found that the designers has developed a really nice desktop over time. So, I somehow respect their judgment and I'm prepared to listen to them.
What about developing a regular gui app instead? A main window with all the bells and whistles mkchromecast needs? It could be minimized, and in that shape work more or less as a status icon. That's sort of the common denominator, I guess - it should work everywhere.
What about developing a regular gui app instead? A main window with all the bells and whistles mkchromecast needs? It could be minimized, and in that shape work more or less as a status icon. That's sort of the common denominator, I guess - it should work everywhere.
I think the same. A window that does all these things, that's the way to go. As I mentioned, I started a GUI, but I am afraid that it will look very ugly at the beginning as I am too new to building these interfaces.
Can you give us an update about this issue? Can we expect a solution anytime soon?
This is also relevant for me. No tray icon But notifications are still present.
I was having this problem too... but it's because I have a dark theme and the icon defaults to black.
I found this out by randomly clicking on my status bar area and saw a drop down appear.
I fixed this by clicking on Preferences and changing the Icon color. I then had to quite mkchromecast and restart, and now I have the system tray icon:
Hope this helps
Thanks @localredhead, this was my issue as well, but now the icon is tiny. This is on Ubuntu 18.10 with Gnome 200% scaling (2560x1440 screen). But at least I can see it's there.
Something that integrates as a shell extension might make a ton of sense. I use this shell extension all the time to switch audio sinks https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/906/sound-output-device-chooser/ Not sure if there would be a way to integrate like this and punt the settings window development for later :)
@ericpulvino that sounds cool, but I have no idea how to do that. Have you ever created an extension for Gnome?
i not have that icon, i clicked all over my top bar with Gnome 3.32/Arch
Do you have KStatusNotifierItem/Appindicator Support or Top Icons Plus installed?
With TopIcons Redux & device choser addon i see icon and is more confortable that from terminal. i'm working to setup preferences to reduce delay
/usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py
Delete or comment out line 169: self.ag = QtWidgets.QActionGroup(self, exclusive=True)
Maybe someone more aware in Python can tell me what this does, IDK enough about but I do know that after Python 5.14 'exclusive' is no longer part of the language. Regardless I'm still trying to figure out how to get it to pair now lol, when I search for streaming devices it doesn't find anything. Will keep updated.
I'm still getting this issue on Fedora 34 (GNOME 40.4) as of de1ae31d84. All requirements.txt items installed correctly, I only had to install lame package manually.
$ pip list installed | grep -i pyqt5
PyQt5 5.15.4
PyQt5-Qt5 5.15.2
PyQt5-sip 12.9.0
$ pip --version
pip 21.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)
I'm using the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension, also verified that there is no invisible tray icon. My tray icons for Dropbox, Slack and more are working normally.
Well, my mistake, I expected the tray to pop up on its own after installing PyQt, but I had to provide the --tray switch. Sorry for a false alarm.
Now I'm getting an "invisible" tray icon just like other commenters are, see screenshot of hovered black icon on black background:
EDIT: After reading the comments again and better, that thing is mostly resolved too by a manual config change. Maybe some kind of light/dark theme autodetection could be added to handle this?
You can change the color of the icon in the preferences.
Best.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 09:19 Nindaleth @.***> wrote:
Well, my mistake, I expected the tray to pop up on its own after installing PyQt, but I had to provide the --tray switch. Sorry for a false alarm.
Now I'm getting an "invisible" tray icon, see screenshot of hovered black icon on black background: [image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6383928/136563791-07f094e5-fe77-487e-9acf-56b5eb8c9f82.png
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