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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How to use notification area (system tray) over indicators in Xubuntu?

Xubuntu has both notification area (system tray) and indicators. I prefer the first one, as it allows me to hide items. Is there any way to force the apps that support both (e.g. Tomboy, Dropbox etc) ...
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KDE notification not clickable in tray

Under KDE 5.17 (on Kubuntu 19.10) the notifications on the desktop are interactive as expected. I can click them to reach the destination (e.g. weblink or a new email). After the notifications are ...
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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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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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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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How do I get Hexchat to start with and show a system tray icon on Ubuntu 18.04?

How do I get Hexchat to show a system tray icon on Ubuntu 18.04? I have tried to launch with 'hexchat --minimize=2', and tried to find a way to enable the system tray in Settings -> Preferences -> ...
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Add an application to notification tray in GNOME

I am developing a Linux application and I want an icon for the application to show up in the notification tray which is at bottom-left in GNOME. Image of notification tray in GNOME: How can I ...
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Missing System Tray Icons in the Cinnamon Desktop Environment

I am currently using the Cinnamon Desktop Environment in which I have applications which uses the System Tray but when these applications are opened, the icons are not shown in the system tray but ...
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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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Where is the Gnome 3 Skype tray icon?

I installed Skype using Flatpak and I would like to change my Skype tray icon with a monochrome one but I can't find it on disk. I changed all the *.png files in /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.Skype.Client ...
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Bring application that has been closed (hidden) to front

As Electron based apps have trouble using the "systray"/tray icons in Gnome, closing (pressing X) on such applications lead effectively to them being hidden, as they also disappear from the ...
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Using alltray in Kubuntu 16.04: "ERROR get class hints"

I'm trying to use alltray in Kubuntu 16.04, mainly to get Spotify into the tray. But however I start alltray, it only exits with the message "ERROR get classhints". I have tried both alltray, alltray ...
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Tray icons dissapeared ubuntu 15.10

I am currently using Ubuntu 15.10 and I'm experiencing some issues related to tray icons not appearing in the top right corner. For example, programs such as Skype or Dropbox initiate on startup, as i ...
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Muon update manager icon in system tray not updating

Kubuntu 15.10. Muon update manager system tray icon indicating updates available. Click on icon, click on update, manager downloads and installs updates successfully and indicates that system is up to ...
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Wine application in system tray

Using Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Somehow I managed to minimize one Wine application into system tray from where it cannot be restored - it does not respond neither to double-click nor to right-click nor ...
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How do I get a list of the active icons present in the system tray?

How can I get a list of Active Icons that are in the system Tray programmatically?
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Indicator synapse in tint2

I'm using Openbox with Tint2 in Ubuntu 13.04 Is there a way to make indicator synapse (indicator-synapse) to appear in the systray area? I don't know why it appears in Unity but here it doesn't, ...
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Network icon disappears from tray

I got 12.04 LTS but it happened in 11.10 too. The thing is that the network icon disappears from tray without any warning. I've noticed it happens when the connection is weak and unstable, but I know ...
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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 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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Guake tray icon is missing in 20.10

I have Ubuntu 20.10 that I installed just couple of days ago. I haven't do any special modding so far. I've kept everything stock - kernel, Gnome. However, I installed Guake terminal, that works as ...
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System Tray Icons Stretching on Mouse Hovering

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 with Gnome 3.36.3. I don't know why, almost every time I hover with my mouse over the system tray icons, they will resize automatically to fit the tray. I believe this must be a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04: run a shell script from the indicator tray

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. Is there a program I can install which will allow me to run a script from the indicator tray? I'm not sure if that's the correct name, so here's a picture: Thank you for ...
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Some tray Icons look weird

I just installed Ubuntu for the first time, and noticed that some icons in tray (appindicator or whatever its called here) are ugly, some are nice: Any way to fix this? p.s. using hi-dpi screen, ...
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Overgrive tray icon is not displayed

I've been using Overgrive for a while and suddenly I realized that in some point the tray icon stopped being loaded. I don't know when and why. However, Overgrive is running and apparently working (...
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Error: Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE

I am attempting to run Rescuetime on ubuntu 16.04 and getting the following error: "sni-qt/17399" WARN 17:25:14.323 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE ...
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Some applications' tray icon images disappearing after screensaver and stand-by

On my two laptops running Ubuntu 16.10, each time they go to sleep, or after the screensaver (i.e. Ubuntu's default screen turn off), some tray icons are missing their images. I mean, the placeholder ...
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How to hide status bar (system tray) in ubuntu 16.10?

How to make system tray to auto-hide just like you can unity launcher? I haven't found any questions about, so I think this wouldn't be easy, but maybe there is some workaround way? I'd like to have ...
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"Forbidden" panel icon after lock or suspend

After upgrading from 16.04 to 16.10, I found that OwnCloud, Clementine and Seafile systray icons turn to "forbidden" whenever I lock the screen or go to suspend. They become forbidden again if I quit ...
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(Gnome, libappindicator) AppIndicator disappears when indicator-application-service is started

I'm using this example: https://gist.github.com/davidboy/1045233 on Ubuntu 14.04 [Gnome Classic]. The system tray icon is shown. But it disappears when the indicator-application-service starts. After ...
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Wifi icon not showing signal strength Ubuntu 14.04?

The wifi icon in my system tray is just an outline. It doesn't actually show any bars/signal strength. I've tried using... sudo apt-get install indicator-applet indicator-network But that didn't ...
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How To Enable Google Now in Ubuntu?

My Google chrome/chromium version is 44 and Ubuntu version is 15.04. I have the Google Chrome icon in the notifications area and Google App Launcher on my Ubuntu Unity launcher but the Google Now and ...
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Change Audio Output via Speaker Symbol

Is there a way to change the Audio Output (and for the sake of completeness the Audio Input) conveniently via the Speaker Symbol of the Top-Bar of Ubuntu? Just like I can change between Wifi networks,...
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How can I resize icons on the system tray?

My system tray now : Zeal, Spotify, google notifications, skype and many more apps that they have a app indicator by default, has a horror icons with over size. I searched on google, ask ubuntu and ...
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Screencloud Tray Icon Disappeared, Already Installed libqt4-svg

I was messing around with a lot of programs and files last night trying to get some things to work. Then, when I turned my computer on this morning, I noticed that my screencloud tray icon had ...
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Problem with Xtreme Download Manager notification icon

XDM had been working fine for, but I think the problem arose once I updated it. Instead of the notification icon being in the tray, it now floats on the screen. This is really annoying because it ...
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Strange icon for Skype in system tray

When I start Skype the following icon appears in the system tray . Skype works fine and also if I click on the icon in the system tray, it is expanded to the full menu as usual. At some random time ...
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How do I show missing icons in the system tray?

I have two programs; Retroshare and cameramonitor (which are both great programs) that will not show in the system tray. It's frustrating.
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wifi and the gwibber icons disappeared from the indicator applet

They have disappeared from the indicator applet in the gnome-panel without asking me anything nor notifying. How can I bring them back in 11.04? I have rebooted and the situation persists. The ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome classic trayicon doesn't work (at least for Pidgin)

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome classic. Pidgin's tray icon doesn't show up. The settings is ok ("Always"). For any case, I've also added it in dconf-editor as per How to enable notification area (...
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How to apply mono effect in my icon?

So my icon is the lizard ( the first one in the tray ) If i open the dash there is an automatic mono effect to all the icons in the tray So i am wondering how can i edit my icon ( with an image ...
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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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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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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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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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App TrayIcon not showing on EI GNOME Top Panel

My application when ran doesn't shows its trayicon on the Gnome Panel but runs successfully. This happens inconsistently. What would be the reason for this?
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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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DropBox system tray icon is black - and no libGL in NVIDIA proprietary drivers

The system tray icon of DropBox is completely black and thus indistinguishable from the background. In order to solve the problem, this post suggests to substitute DropBox's libGL with NVIDIA's libGL ...
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The tray icon cannot be displayed when the Ubuntu 20.10 is turned on

My system version is 20.10. I upgraded from 20.04. I found such a problem, the tray icon cannot be displayed when the system is turned on or restarted, but if I kiil the process and restart it, it ...
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Tray icons dissapear after screen lock

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, Nvidia video, and had an issue lately, tray icons for some apps dissapear from top right corner. Still unable to reproduce behavior, I must say it's work's computer and it has ...
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