system tray

[wojciechGaudnik]

I cannot put it into the system tray

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Caprine 2.45.0
Electron 8.2.1
linux 5.3.0-46-generic
Locale: en-US

[FrogMcRibbit]

I also don't have anykind of system tray with Caprine 2.45.0. If I close the window normally (not quitting the program), I still have processes related to Caprine, and if someone sends me a message, I do get notified about it. I just don't have the tray icon.

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Caprine 2.45.0
Electron 8.2.1
linux 5.4.31-1-MANJARO
Desktop environment: Cinnamon 4.4.8
Locale: en-GB

[FrogMcRibbit]

Okay, so I do have a tray icon in KDE, but not on Cinnamon.

It might be an issue that is related to my desktop environment though, and not to Caprine in itself, considering that there was some upcoming changes announced for Cinnamon because of Electron.

StatusNotifier, libAppIndicator and libAyatana

Following a change in Electron, XappStatusIcon applets will gain support for StatusNotifier, libAppIndicator and libAyatana.

[...]

LibAppIndicator and libAyatana have the ability to fallback to xembed (the GTK tray technology), so in Cinnamon, even though support for these technologies was disabled by default, applications using these libraries would still get their icon into the tray. In Mint, the situation was even better because libAppIndicator was patched to fallback to XappStatusIcon before falling back to xembed, thus preserving compatibility with HiDPI and symbolic icons. The problem was with applications using StatusNotifier directly.. which just didn’t fallback to anything at all and had no visible tray icon. With Electron moving to StatusNotifier this issue became more urgent.

XappStatusIcon applets gaining support for these technologies will guarantee better support for modern Electron apps and indicators and it will do so in all distributions, without the need to patch anything.

Source: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3887

Welp, I guess I will have to wait for updates for my desktop environment (at least in my case, I don't know is OP also uses Cinnamon or not).

[yermulnik]

Same issue on Mint 18.3 Sylvia with Mate Desktop =(
Had to downgrade to Caprine 2.43.0

[wojciechGaudnik]

Recently I discovered that Caprine show icon when I run and next restart by changing options (for example Hardware Accelerate)

[yermulnik]

@wojciechGaudnik Do you have to do it every time you start the app or it kind of memorizes this behavior?

[wojciechGaudnik]

@yatharth Only after hard restart comp. When woke up from sleep mode(to RAM) than it is ok.

[yermulnik]

changing options (for example Hardware Accelerate)

Didn't work for me. Have to stay at 2.43.0 version for now =(

[Swash1972]

Pop_Os 19.10 (Ubuntu 19.10) x64
Gnome 3.34.2
Caprine 2.45
Also missing tray icon, even with showing legacy icons.
Disable and enabling Hardware Acceleration, did not help.

[snoozi]

Pop_OS 20.04 x64
Caprine 2.46
GNOME 3.36.2
X11

disappears from tray after wake from suspend; sometimes disappears for unknown additional reasons I haven't quite figured out. Will reappear upon restart.

Other thread suggested hicolor/0x0 is the problem, will see if it improves the situation over time.

Update on 20th May -- mentioned suggested fix did not fix.

[yermulnik]

There's a somewhat related PR in Electron that has been merged today: electron/electron#23674

[Syndamia]

I found a workaround for Cinnamon. Switch to Work Chat (Ctrl + Shift + 2) and then it will appear.

Now you can go back to Normal Chat (Ctrl + Shift + 1) and you are still gonna have a tray icon.

After quitting the app and opening it again, the tray icon stayed.

Edit: just to note that, after about two weeks, the tray icon still works like a charm, after many restarts, updates, etc.

[yermulnik]

Out of the blue tray icon started to work for me at v2.48.0 😕
Though before upgrading from v2.43.0 I did try what @Syndamia suggested — no idea whether this was the trick or v2.48.0
Will need to verify after reboot but it's not gonna happen any time soon though =(

[wildcard-f8]

I had this problem on Gnome. I just turned on the Gnome extension called Unite and I could see the system tray icon again. For some reason it was hiding it if I turned the extension off.

[dusansimic]

This was a bug caused in Chromium itself and it is fixed as some comments said just arround version 2.48 (Caprine). Since it's fixed now I'll close this issue.