nitroshare-desktop No icon in Ubuntu Studio 16.04

Nitroshare 0.3.1 doesn't show any tray icon in Xfce 4.12, unless it is called with:

env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=gnome nitroshare

Mar 06 '16 15:03 techtonik

Is this still showing up in 16.04? If so, I can spin up a virtual machine with XFCE installed and try to reproduce it.

Jun 07 '16 01:06 nathan-osman

Yes. Not showing up in 16.04.

Jun 21 '16 06:06 techtonik

Okay, I'll take a look at this tomorrow.

Jun 21 '16 08:06 nathan-osman

I tried reproducing this in a VM but as soon as I launch NitroShare, the splash screen appears and once that is closed, the icon shows up:

What is the output of this command?

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

Also - did you install NitroShare from the archives or a PPA (if so, which one)?

Jun 21 '16 21:06 nathan-osman

I don't have any PPA configured, so it must be official package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/nitroshare

Jun 22 '16 12:06 techtonik

$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
ubuntustudio

and there is no splash screen.

Jun 22 '16 12:06 techtonik

Installed 0.3.3 from PPA. Still the same problem, and this time there is a message in terminal.

$ nitroshare 
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set

Jul 14 '16 12:07 techtonik

The message in the terminal is unrelated. Qt is simply complaining because the tray icon is shown before the image is assigned to it, which is a necessary workaround for a completely different issue.

Jul 14 '16 14:07 nathan-osman

So, what is the resolution?

Jul 14 '16 17:07 techtonik

I'll have to keep trying to reproduce this. Until I can reproduce the bug, it will be essentially impossible to fix. I will see if I can try Ubuntu Studio in a VM sometime this weekend.

Jul 15 '16 01:07 nathan-osman

I have Nitroshare installed on Ubuntu 16.04 XFCE. No icon is howing although Nitroshare is running and receives files just fine.

Jun 03 '17 07:06 ghost

So the problem is with XFCE.

Jun 03 '17 08:06 techtonik

@techtonik Okay. Makes sense.

OTOH, it would be more user freindly if the Nitroshare interface was accessible by other means other than the tray icon. Because at this moment, Nitroshare on my XFCE is kind of useless. 😞

Jun 03 '17 08:06 ghost

@peterkahl have you tried command line?

Jun 03 '17 09:06 techtonik

I couldn't figure out how to invoke the command line. But I fixed the XFCE tray icon problem. The icon is now visible and my problem is solved. Thanks for your help!

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Jun 03 '17 09:06 ghost

I know this thread is really old but @peterkahl how did you fix the XFCE tray Icon problem, I have the same issue.

Oct 18 '20 00:10 StephanieF

@StephanieF although I am now using i3 I think that KDE folks at https://ubuntustudio.org/ will be able to help as well. At least they should know common problems when packaging applications for KDE.

Oct 18 '20 08:10 techtonik

Thank you very much for the help @techtonik I'll check it out.

Oct 18 '20 22:10 StephanieF