Description of problem: The firewall-applet does not function Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.8.0-1.f32 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install firewall-applet 2.Restart the system 3. Actual results: The firewall applet icon is not shown in the top bar. There is no notification of successful connection the the network. Expected results: The firewall-applet icon is displayed in the top bar on the right side and to the left of the panel. The icon has right and left mouse click modes that provide quick access to many firewalld functions. Also there is a notification under the clock the shows status of the network connection. The notification happens with each power on start or restart of the system. Additional info: The System Monitor application shows firewall applet loaded with a PID, normal priority and with 23.4MB memory. I looked at firewall configuration to see if there is now a setting to activate the applet. Under Options I selected Panel mode and did a restart. There was no change. The firewall applet was not visible on the top bar and did not provide a connection notification. The firewall applet has worked fine under gnome for many Fedora releases. The function of the applet degraded starting with F30. The Icon was a faint dark grey patch and if you pick just the right spot the right and left click functions still worked, and the connection notifications worked. In F31 the applet became unusable. and is still so in Rawhide (F32) drop 0112 of Workstation. With F31 Xfce the applet worked great! I got the connection notification on restart or power up start. I also got the icon in the top bar that provides the left and right click actions.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle. Changing version to 32.
Comment 3 Eric Garver 2020-03-11 14:10:33 UTC >As I understand it the fix is probably on the firewalld side. I think it's an integration issue. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812510#c3 I think one bug is probably enough, and guessing it needs to be fixed in Rawhide before it'll get pushed out to other releases.
*** Bug 1812510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug is still present in F33 drop Fedora-WS-rawh-20200507-n-o with firewall-applet version 0.8.2-2.fc33
*** Bug 1762485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have closed the othet two reports related to this bug The Duplicate notes above are errors. This report is the most upto date report for this bug
This bug is still present in Rawhide (F33) drop 0804.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle. Changing version to 33.
This bug is still present in Fedora Branched F33 WS 0819-n-1
This bug is still present in F34 Fedora WS-Live-rawh-20210112-n-0 Log info: Jan 9 07:36:56 firewall-applet: QObject::connect: No such signal QPlatformNativeInterface::systemTrayWindowChanged(QScreen*) Jan 9 07:36:56 firewall-applet: QObject::connect: No such signal QPlatformNativeInterface::systemTrayWindowChanged(QScreen*) Jan 9 07:36:54 firewall-applet: "/proc/1989/root" Jan 9 07:36:53 firewall-applet: QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread Additional info: Installing topicons-plus makes no difference. Also firewall applet has two main functions. One is the icon in the top bar that provides quick access to a menu firewall functions. The other is that it provides notifications in the notification area when a network connection is established or lost. On an inTel machine neither the icon nor notifications work. On an AMD machine (A10-7800), though there is no icon on the top bar there are notifications in the notification area when a network connection is established or lost.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle. Changing version to 34.
This bug has been around under different bug numbers since Wayland implementation was started. This is a current tool and works fine under X11, but not with Wayland.
In today's Prioritized Bugs meeting, we decided to wait until the next meeting in order to gather some input from the firewalld maintainers: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2021-05-05/fedora_prioritized_bugs_and_issues.2021-05-05-15.00.log.html#l-58
mattdm is gonna schedule a meeting with the right people about this, was said in todays Prioritized Bugs meeting
The applet can be made visible by: 1. install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus 2. log out/in of gnome 3. enable Topicons Plus (Tweaks -> Extensions) This is an issue induced by Gnome hiding status icons [1]. AFAIK, the only fix is to run the applet like a normal window. If you're going to do that you might as well run firewall-config which is basically what [1] suggest. Given the above and the lack of development bandwidth in firewalld upstream this is a WONTFIX or CANTFIX. I'll wait on feedback before closing as such, but I don't see this bug going anywhere else. [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/StatusIconMigration/
Closing as per comment 15.