Bug 1389875
| Summary: | Tray icon of some applications (e.g. Telegram desktop) doesn't appear under Gnome with Wayland | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayatv> |
| Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 25 | CC: | fedora, fmuellner, jhasse, otaylor |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-12 10:45:52 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Hedayat Vatankhah
2016-10-29 07:34:32 UTC
Transmission has the same problem too. Gtk+ developers would say this is a bug in Telegram which should not use tray icons. According to https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkStatusIcon.html it is deprecated since Gtk+ 3.14 (released >2 years ago). There is some controversity about this. See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758677 But it doesn't seem that they are dropped completely: e.g. stardict & keepassX are still able to show a tray icon. (Thank you for the referenced bug though. Apparently there is an alternative method to show a status icon?) Gnome-Shell still has code for it on X11, so all X11 applications (Qt4 and Gtk+ 2 by default, Gtk+ 3 and Qt5 by environment variable) can still use GtkStatusIcon's. For Gtk+ 3.x applications there is a workaround: specify GDK_BACKEND=x11 in your environment. To do this, e.g. start telegram through a script with #!/bin/sh export GDK_BACKEND=x11 /usr/bin/telegram or with this command line GDK_BACKEND=x11 /usr/bin/telegram But those are just workarounds and the status icon feature has already been removed from Gtk+ 4 sources. Ah... thank you for the clarification. (so, it seems that stardict & keepassx are still being run as an X11 applictaions). Then probably this bug can be closed. I've lost all my hope that such design decisions might change; and I don't see notifications (at least with the current design) to be able to replace tray icon. :(( Removing from WaylandRelated- as Christian explained, XEmbed is an X11-only technology, so applications using it need to explicitly request the X11 backend. For GTK+ applications, that would involve something like calling:
gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11,*");
before GTK+ is initialized.
If you want to use Telegram's tray icon with GNOME and (pure) Wayland, installing https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator is the way to go. This message is a reminder that Fedora 25 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 25. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '25'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 25 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |