no systray icon

[FiSHYsolutions]

• [x] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• [ ] I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.

Bug Description

no systray icon someone closed #6259 but the issue is not fixed yet

Steps to Reproduce

start the application

Actual Result:

no visible icon in systray

Expected Result:

visible icon in systray

Screenshots

have no clue how to screenshot a missing icon

Platform Info

Signal Version:

bash$ snap info signal-desktop
name:      signal-desktop
summary:   Private messaging from your desktop.
publisher: Snapcrafters
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/signal-desktop
contact:   https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues
license:   AGPL-3.0-only
description: |
  Private messaging from your desktop.
  
  To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone.
  
  **Are you having issues?**
  
  Let us know by creating a new issue here: https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues
  
  **Authors**
  
  This snap is maintained by the Snapcrafters community, and is not necessarily endorsed or
  officially maintained by the upstream developers.
commands:
  - signal-desktop
snap-id:      r4LxMVp7zWramXsJQAKdamxy6TAWlaDD
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: vor 6 Tagen, um 21:06 CET
channels:
  latest/stable:    6.11.0 2023-03-24 (476) 194MB -
  latest/candidate: 6.12.0 2023-03-30 (481) 174MB -
  latest/beta:      ↑                             
  latest/edge:      ↑                             
installed:          6.11.0            (476) 194MB -

Operating System:

bash$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

This should be fixed when we upgrade to Electron 23 in the next few weeks. In the future, when reporting bugs like this, it helps to provide information about your window manager and notification/tray subsystems.

[FiSHYsolutions]

still no tray icon in signal desktop v6.14.0 (snap) using default xubuntu 22.04.2 lts

[indutny-signal]

We didn't upgrade to new major version of Electron. Please stay tuned! Sorry you keep running into it!

[Ambient-Impact]

I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, which is mostly Ubuntu of that same version under the hood for most purposes. I installed it via signal.org's instructions and I'm able to edit my /usr/share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop to include --use-tray-icon --start-in-tray in the Exec like so:

Exec=/opt/Signal/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon --start-in-tray --no-sandbox %U

This works perfectly with the current version for me, on GNOME 42.5

@FiSHYsolutions Are you able to reinstall it using the official method? That might make it work. Note that for me, editing the icon required logging out of my user session and back in to take effect.

[FiSHYsolutions]

still no tray icon in signal desktop v6.15.0 (snap) using default xubuntu 22.04.2 lts

[JamesOsborn-SE]

Building from main as of the time of writing version 6.17.0-beta.1 I realize that this is not in a sandbox and I 'm assuming that's the bit upgrading to Electron 23 will fix.

I see the system tray icon. Clicking toggles show/hide

Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.25-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11

[FiSHYsolutions]

still no tray icon in signal desktop v6.16.0 (snap) using default xubuntu 22.04.2 lts

[Ambient-Impact]

@FiSHYsolutions You're not using the official build as multiple people have pointed out. Spamming this thread isn't going to make that magically happen, and the maintainers have already said they're working on it, and I've explained how I got it to work using the official install method.

[FiSHYsolutions]

still no tray icon in signal desktop v6.17.1 (snap) using default xubuntu 22.04.2 lts

[FiSHYsolutions]

still no tray icon in signal desktop v6.43.2 (snap) using default xubuntu 22.04.3 lts

[tkasch]

For me Signal's tray icon started to appear as expected in XFCE's system tray after terminating the running process /usr/libexec/ayatana-indicator-application/ayatana-indicator-application-service. This is on Ubuntu 22.04 with XFCE 4.16 installed from Ubuntu's repo. Uninstalling the package ayatana-indicator-application seems to have permanently fixed the issue for me. FWIW, element-desktop (also an Electron app) suffered from the same missing-tray-icon-issue and has its tray icon back as well...