No tray icon in ubuntu 18.04

[dCo3lh0]

Hi, it seems like the icon on tray don't show at all in my linux mint 19.1 (xfce - gnome based) (ubuntu 18.04 based), another thing i miss in the app is the close to tray option, so if i minimize or close the app, it just get out of taskbar, but keeps running with the tray icon. Thanks!

[amanharwara]

This is something that has me scratching my head for a long time. There are issues related to the tray icon on Linux distributions in Electron itself, due to which I have not been able to fix it properly. This is why I have put the "help wanted" label; I can't seem to find a fix, maybe someone else can.

[derdjme]

I found this here: https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-does-not-show-icon-in-task-bar/40/5

also very intresting: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/master/Joplin_install_and_update.sh

[banchaa]

Yes, it propably has something to do with AppImages. I notice when I close Altus under KDE Plasma with Debian, that a hidden placeholder is being moved in the tray bar.

Thumbs up so far. I was not able to find Altus without searching explicit for "electron app with whatsapp". That is a nice piece of application.

[amanharwara]

I've removed the tray icon feature and setting on Linux since v3.0 as it doesn't work properly anyways. I'm also closing this issue until there are any new developments. If you have any fix for this, let me know.

[insign]

I disagree with the closing of this issue since it is "help wanted".

[amanharwara]

I closed it because there isn't really any fix for this that can be implemented by changing Altus' code. I've researched a bit and the issue actually is stemming from Chromium itself, so there's not really much that can be done in Altus to fix it other than waiting for an Electron update that patches this.

[amanharwara]

Just read an issue thread on the electron repo. I think there might be a fix for this. I'll re-open it till then.

[davidrhoderick]

Just confirming my interest in this and that it doesn't show up in Pop!_OS 20.04.

[MarceloZapatta]

#77 Should be fixed with this PR

[amanharwara]

Merged #77. Will publish a release soon.
Thanks @MarceloZapatta!

[amanharwara]

Should be fixed in v3.14.0

[amanharwara]

Closing this issue since it should be fixed.