Questions tagged [system-tray]
The space where individual program icons or system icons are used as status indicators, notifying the user of changes and allowing quick access to key functions of the program/system tool.
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Alltray gives error message "ERROR get class hints"
As the title says, when I start alltray from terminal a window pops up and then closes immediately. The terminal process ends with return code 1 and ERROR get class hints output.
Anyone an idea how to ...
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How to minimize to tray Thunderbird in KDE Plasma 5.2?
I just tried Kubuntu 15.04. I installed Thunderbird with minimizetotray addon. But window disappears instead of minimize to tray. How can I fix it?
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Lock icon system tray (ubuntu 23.10)
I'm running Ubuntu 23.10.
Does anyone know what this lock with an exclamation in my system tray means in the picture below? I don't see it described in the official docs.
I have a VPN setup, but it's ...
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How can I configure BOINC to start at startup?
I can't get BOINC to start with the rest of the startup applications and the software itself doesn't have that option, I've been reading about it on Berkeley's forum but I can't get the answer, it ...
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Left button click on tray icons open context menu instead of opening the app
Every time I left click the tray icon of an app, it opens the context menu instead of opening the app itself.
I'm using Ubuntu in a virtual machine since I faced this issue on Ubuntu Budgie, I wanted ...
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How to collapse and expand program icons in the notification area?
How can I collapse and expand program icons in the notification area / system tray?
I can hide icons on xubuntu/xfce with "Status Notifier Plugin", but I'm looking for a expand menu function ...
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Application System Tray - GNOME 18.04
I have the problem that system trays in Ubuntu 18.04.1 (using GNOME) are not visible. I found a similar topic (Missing system tray icons Ubuntu Gnome 18.04) but the command sudo cpan -i Gtk2::...
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Xpad tray icon not showing up on 22.04
On a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04LTS, I just installed Xpad via apt. Its tray icon should appear on the upper right but does not. In the settings of Xpad the box "Enable tray icon" is ...
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Icon of Gnome Pomodoro does not show up. How do I fix it?
I've been using GNOME Pomodoro already in Ubuntu 21.04 and it worked just fine (installed with sudo apt install gnome-shell-pomodoro). However, I had to reinstall Ubuntu for some unrelated reason and ...
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KeePassXC Snap System Tray Icon missing in Kubuntu
I have installed KeePassXC from Snap but its system tray icon is missing. It's clickable but only that icon doesn't show up.
Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
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Emacs starts utterly maximized -- can't see Dash or System Tray
In my Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, I inadvertently hit some combination of keystrokes, and now whenever I start Emacs it wholly maximizes itself --- to such a degree that the Dash bar and the System Tray are ...
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How to remove Hplip icon from system tray?
Yesterday I installed Hplip 3.23.5 onto my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop. I followed the instructions on the HP support site for an automatic install.
I want to remove the Hplip icon from the system tray, as I ...
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How to display a system tray icon in Ubuntu 20.04+?
I write an application for myself and want to display a system tray icon - at the top right - in it. Is there a library I can use? The application is in .NET core, so any library that can be easily ...
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Unity Desktop: Tray icons of some apps not showing anymore (Ubuntu 22.04)
Like a ghost that you can't get rid of, here is an issue that was actually solved many years ago and has now been appearing again for a couple of months: Some tray icons don't appear anymore, in my ...
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Ubuntu Quick settings panel doesn't look right after updating to 22.10
I updated from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 yesterday and the quick settings panel does not look right. It has huge out of place icons and looks nothing the sleek modern looking settings panel in the ...
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Ubuntu 20.10 missing "system tray"
After testing Ubuntu 20.10 on my two backup computers, and prepping my main computer to take 20.10, I finally updated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.10 on my main computer. I've still had a few glitches.
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How can I hide redundant icon on task bar?
I am using xpad with dash to panel, and xpad icon is redundant: there is a tray icon on the right and whenever a new note is open, it also appears on running apps.
I understand this is not a bug but ...
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Finding out all running GUI applications
There are some old questions similar to this; however, I haven't found a way to list and optionally close applications that are also minimized to system tray.
During a session log out in Windows, ...
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Ubuntu Budgie: Why is my system tray / app indicator empty?
I recently switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu Budgie. First I installed Ubuntu Mate (ubuntu-mate-sektop), and a couple of weeks later Ubuntu Budgie (ubuntu-budgie-desktop) on top of that. All installs ...
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Ubuntu Budgie system tray icon overlap
I have installed Ubuntu Budgie recently and I'm facing this problem every time I turn system on and some times It can solve by restarting system (Not always). Can any body help to fix this issue?
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In Ubuntu Unity, can I display the output of a bash script in the systray area?
I have a bash script that locks the screen after a set amount of time (Application that will lock screen after a set amount of time for Ubuntu). I would like to display the time remaining in Ubuntu's ...
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Deluge: missing systray icon in XFCE Panel (Xubuntu)
I installed the latest Deluge version, i enabled both "enable tray icon" and "minimize in tray when closing", but i can't see any tray icon and if i close the program i can't see anything at all and ...
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Viber Tray Icon disappear after upgrade to 18.2 with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04
Viber Tray Icon located at the top disappeared after upgrading from Viber 16.? to Viber 18.2. This happened in ubuntu 20.04 and also 22.04.
viber installed by downloading the deb package from viber....
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Bluetooth won't connect to device (firmware patch file not found)
I bought an Bluetooth adapter that says it is Linux compatible. The Bluetooth rune shows in the tool bar I open the Bluetooth devices window via the rune and it shows the device I wish to connect to. ...
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How to run Signal Desktop in the background?
How is it possible to run Signal Desktop in the background on Ubuntu with a little icon in the taskbar at the top of the screen?
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Grouping Tray Icons
Is there a setting/app/extension that will let me group my "tray icons" similar to how Windows does it?
I know a lot of folks like to keep background processes to a minimum, but there are ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?
This is standard behaviour of all desktop messengers (Skype, Viber, Telegram, ..). All of them minimizes itself in system tray when Alt+F4 or close button is activated and they are running in ...
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How do I autostart an application on the system tray?
I want Audacious and Transmission to autostart on the system tray when I login, If I just add them to autostart they start open and I have to close them manually. How I do that?
I think It's clear ...
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Missing system tray from taskbar lubuntu 20.04
I have asked about the missing system tray over on Ubuntu Forums, but nobody seems interested in the question. It is frustrating because a few programs minimize to the system tray instead of shutting ...
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Thunderbird icon is missing in system tray bar in Ubuntu 18.04
In Ubuntu 16.04 I had a Thunderbird icon in tray bar with unread messages but there isn't in Ubuntu 18.04.
Is there a chance to have it again?
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What does the system tray "Lock" button actually do [22.10]?
Ok yes, it sound like a dumb question as I am indeed talking about this:
But my question is a little more complicated and has identical origins as the question asked here: Remove lock button/icon ...
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System tray icons all disappeared
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.5. Recently all of my system tray application icons (e.g. Dropbox, Discord) disappeared, and restarting did not help. When I run Dropbox or Discord from terminal, their ...
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Don't close Top Bar Settings Panel when clicked
I find it extremely annoying when I for example turn on wifi or bluetooth from the top right system tray (or top bar, no clue what it's called) and it automatically closes. Is there any way to keep it ...
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Which package includes calendar and time at the top in Ubuntu 22.10?
There's a bug I'd like to report but i don't know which package the calendar at the top tray belongs to. Gnome-shell or system-tray? The version is Ubuntu 22.10.
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Two network/wi-fi icons in the system tray
I have been having issues with my internet connection.
I have noticed that after installing some 'software updates' on my installation of Kubuntu that I now have two network icons appearing in my ...
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Discord showing two tray icons after update
This one is a bit exoteric. Recently after updating my system ('apt upgrade' and 'snap refresh') the discord app started showing two icons on the system tray instead of one. It happens only after some ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 can't see system tray icons such as steam, teams icon
My bottom bar is like this:
This is session:
canerveg@canerVegan ~ loginctl
SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY
29 1000 canerveg seat0 tty2
c3 118 gdm seat0 tty1
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Customizing tray/taskbar date display in Ubuntu with GNOME 3
On previous versions I had the date displayed. Now it just shows the current day but not the day's number or the month.
Is there a way to customize the clock or tray/taskbar more in GNOME shell on ...
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Is it possible to display a tray icon with appindicator and a bash script?
If I understand correctly, the Gnome shell extension appindicator, is used to display tray icons in the activities bar, on the top right of the screen.
Is it possible to display a tray icon with a ...
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Remove lock button/icon from system tray Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome 3.28
For the life of me I'm trying to find a way, to system-wide REMOVE the lock 'icon' from the system tray (ie under the top left dropdown)... I've tried everything under the sun to either: stop it from ...
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Number of unread messages in system tray kmail icon
In previous versions of KDE, the system tray icon of KMail showed the number of unread messages on the mail icon. For instance, in Kubuntu 14.04 I had the following:
In recent versions of KDE the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dropbox icon systray
After vanilla installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS I have noticed 2 related issues with the icon in the systray.
For clarity, the client was installed from Ubuntu Software, following the usual ...
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Can't get keepassXC to launch on startup
Ubuntu 18.04. KeepassXC installed via flatpak. I added it to the startup list, using filepath
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.desktop
but it will not startup on ...
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Telegram system tray icon appears black in Kubuntu 20.04
As the title says telegram system tray icon is hardly visible. All appearance settings are on default.
But when I change Colors from Breeze to Breeze Dark it gets fixed.
The problem is that I like ...
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Why do I have 2 Viber appicons on my tray
If I restart extension Ubuntu Appindicators, then only one icon stays.
Ubuntu is 21.10 and Viber is 16.1.0.37
If I grep Viber in processes, situation is same, before and after restarting ...
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Minimizing Evolution to the tray
How do I minimize Evolution to its tray icon?
I've installed evolution-indicator, and it does show evolution under the messaging menu, but I have no idea how to minimize it.
I've installed Evolution-...
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XFCE: How to find out which app is showing the tray?
I'm trying to run status bars (with trays) like i3status and polybar on XFCE. xfce4-panel is disabled (confirmed by checking htop on startup) but I don't see tray icons shown in any of the alternative ...
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Zoom icon too large and blurry in system tray
I installed Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 and the Zoom application icon appears too large and blurry on the tray, as shown on the attached screenshot. It does not follow the resizing of all other icons, which ...
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How to run Spotify in background?
Like other music players (e.g. Rhythmbox) I want to run Spotify(Spotify version 1.0.49.125.g72ee7853) in background.
But when I close the spotify window, it terminates the program. I have gone through ...
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Removing the Livepatch system tray panel indicator in Lubuntu 20.04
I'm using LXQt in Lubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.
I'd like to get rid of the Livepatch indicator, that's within the system tray that's on my panel (the tray is full of c*** I don't need anyway!)
I looked ...
