flameshot indicator icon issue

Created on 17 Jan 2018 · 48Comments · Source: flameshot-org/flameshot

I am using both albert launcher and flameshot in ubuntu 16.04. Both have an indicator, however when i installed flameshot the icon of albert changed to the flameshot icon.

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dhpowrhost

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@Creteil @ranjitc
Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome

What is certain now is Unity desktop problems.

ZetaoYang on 13 Feb 2018

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@dhpowrhost Please say how you install flameshot? And please check out the flameshot and albert desktop files.

ZetaoYang on 17 Jan 2018

I don't think it will have anything to do with the desktopfiles.
Does this happen in every session after you reboot?
Check if you can reproduce the issue with 2 different desktops (your usual desktop and other), if it happens only in one it could be a bug in the system.

lupoDharkael on 17 Jan 2018

I installed flameshot using the provided deb file..

dhpowrhost on 18 Jan 2018

@dhpowrhost May be the issue of the system/icon theme or system extensions. I can not reproduce this issue. If you don't mind, I hope you can provide more detailed information about your desktop environment and describe the whole process clearly.

ZetaoYang on 20 Jan 2018

hi, i've got this problem too. compiled and installed from github.
i'm using ubuntu 16.04 with default unity de.

ranjitc on 24 Jan 2018

Hi all,

Same problem occur here between «flameshot » and « mkchromecast » but with some more detailed information's :

Starting with the 2 apps closed.
If I run first « flameshot » and then « mkchromecast », the 2 icons render with the « mkchromecast » icon.
If I run first « mkchromecast » and then « flameshot », the 2 icons render with the « flameshot » icon.

Look like the last application launched force the use of his own icon.

Also, closing 1 of the 2 applications, the icon of the remaining application is used.

Hope it help ...

PS : added a video with the behavior : flameshot & mkchromecast icon bug

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil the video link is unavailable. Can you upload the video to drop.me again?

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

ZetaoYang

Sorry, but I am out for the moment.
What do you mean by « the video link its unavailable » ???
I am playing it properly from my smartphone without any restrictions...
Do you have any restrictions to access video located in France 🇫🇷 ???

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil I got it via http proxy. And upload to Drop.me flameshot & mkchromecast icon bug

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil How do you install flameshot? Is it manually compiled and installed?

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang yes, I have build packages by myself (running Ubuntu 15.10 wily).

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil You compile the source code is downloaded from Github Release v0.5.0? Or the latest master branch？

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

bigbob@bigbob-UX31A:~/tmp/Building/flameshot/flameshot$ git --git-dir .git --work-tree . describe --always --tags
v0.5.0-114-gdb8a483

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quiterss/+bug/1529957

@Creteil Sorry, whether compiled and installed source code or installed deb directly, I can not reproduce this problem on ubuntu16.04.

But I reproduced this issue :

I am using both albert launcher and flameshot in ubuntu 16.04. Both have an indicator, however when i installed flameshot the icon of albert changed to the flameshot icon.

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

hi @ZetaoYang was wondering if you have tried this with these two particular sw ~~alftred~~ albert / mkchromecast? if yes, then i guess there is something else on our systems causing this, if not, then maybe these particular sw cause a conflict? or have a common dependency?/

@Creteil sorry to digress from the topic but is the icon in your tray of airdroid? have you managed to get it to work under wine?

ranjitc on 12 Feb 2018

@ranjitc what do you mean by « is the icon in your tray of airdroid? » what icon ?

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang what icon appear duplicate if you close « albert launcher » & « flameshot » then start « flameshot » & « albert launcher » in this order...

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil this icon ...
screen shot 2018-02-12 at 15 04 53

ranjitc on 12 Feb 2018

@ranjitc look like this icon come from ZetaoYang screenshot, not mine...

BTW, I think this is the icon of Telegram client.

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

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@ranjitc I will try in other system.

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

@ranjitc @Creteil Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon

This should be the Ubuntu platform problem. Accurately speaking, it should be a Unity desktop problem.

ZetaoYang on 12 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang ok, thanks, I'm trying to find why and fix ...

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang really strange...

The unity launcher work properly and show right icon per application when opening apps :

But the indicator icons in the indicator area at top of the screen show duplicate icon of the last opened app :

Creteil on 12 Feb 2018

@Creteil @ranjitc
Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome

What is certain now is Unity desktop problems.

ZetaoYang on 13 Feb 2018

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@ZetaoYang thanks for looking into it !

ranjitc on 13 Feb 2018

@ranjitc @Creteil For Ubuntu 16.04 users, try to upgrade to Unity 7.4.5 to see if this issue is resolved.
changlog

ZetaoYang on 17 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang I am currently trying to backport unity of xenial on my heavily updated wily release...

At least I can « give it a try !!! »

Creteil on 17 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang Do you have an idea of why my compilation of unity 7.4 bail out with this error ??? :

bigbob@bigbob-UX31A:~/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415$ LANG=C cd /home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-shared && /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++   -DUSE_X11 -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -DGNOME_DESKTOP_USE_UNSTABLE_API -std=c++11 -fno-permissive -Werror -Wall -Wcast-align -Wempty-body -Wformat-security -Winit-self -Warray-bounds -Wno-error=unused-local-typedefs -pthread -DGLEW_MX -pthread -I/usr/include/unity/unity -I/usr/include/libappstream-glib -I/usr/include/libdbusmenu-glib-0.4 -I/usr/include/dee-1.0 -I/usr/include/libindicator3-0.4 -I/usr/include/json-glib-1.0 -I/usr/include/libbamf3 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbamf3/include -I/usr/include/gnome-desktop-3.0 -I/usr/include/Nux-4.0 -I/usr/include/GL -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/unity-misc -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/mirclient -I/usr/include/mircommon -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/zeitgeist-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/startup-notification-1.0 -I/usr/include/compiz -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/startup-notification-1.0 -I/usr/include/gsettings-desktop-schemas -pthread -DGLEW_MX -pthread -fPIC -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/.. -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/../services -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/../UnityCore -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/../plugins/unityshell/src -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu -I/home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-shared     -include unity-shared_pch.hh  -fpch-preprocess  -Winvalid-pch  -o CMakeFiles/unity-shared.dir/AppStreamApplication.cpp.o -c /home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/AppStreamApplication.cpp
In file included from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h:9:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/Nux-4.0/NuxCore/SystemGNU.h:37,
                 from /usr/include/Nux-4.0/NuxCore/NuxCore.h:125,
                 from /usr/include/Nux-4.0/Nux/Nux.h:26,
                 from /home/bigbob/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/unity-shared/pch/unity-shared_pch.hh:30:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:260:24: error: expected declaration before ‘}’ token
 #define G_END_DECLS    }
                        ^
/usr/include/libappstream-glib/as-tag.h:156:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_END_DECLS’
 G_END_DECLS
 ^
bigbob@bigbob-UX31A:~/tmp/Building/unity/unity-7.4.0+16.04.20160415/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-shared$

It's hours I am searching how to fix this compilation error without any success (it look like my understanding of this error is limited).

Creteil on 17 Feb 2018

@Creteil Why do you compile and install from source?

ZetaoYang on 18 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang Because I can't upgrade my actual wily to 16.04.3 LTS without start from scratch.
By the way, I am tired of compiling this stuff, so, I am in the process to install the 16.04.3 LTS on another computer to see if every applications and GUI stuff work like I expect and then migrate my principal laptop to 16.04.3 LTS after check tests completed successfully ...

Creteil on 18 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang no luck :( problem persists on 7.4.5 ... oh well 18.04 is around the corner

ranjitc on 18 Feb 2018

@ranjitc @Creteil You can try AppImage, it works well on Ubuntu14.04 when I installed indicator-systemtray-unity.

ZetaoYang on 18 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang thanks, will give it a shot

ranjitc on 18 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang F*k !!! On a fresh installed 16.04 LTS exactly same problem...

bigbob@bigbob-ThinkPad-X201:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial
bigbob@bigbob-ThinkPad-X201:~$ dpkg -l unity
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=attend-traitement-déclenchements
|/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom                           Version             Architecture        Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii  unity                         7.4.5+16.04.2017120 amd64               Interface designed for efficiency of space and interaction.
bigbob@bigbob-ThinkPad-X201:~$

Creteil on 18 Feb 2018

@ranjitc @Creteil
I have a compromise solution：

For Ubuntu 14.04/16.04, install indicator-systemtray-unity (Only Unity desktop environment)
Ubuntu 14.04 support is the best, but Ubuntu 16.04, still can be used.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/indicator-systemtray-unity  
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-systemtray-unity

Once installed, log out and log in and Indicator Systemtray Unity should start automatically.

Settings

To change the mode position: press the middle mouse button on the indicator.
The horizontal position can be changed: scrolling the mouse over the indicator.

Settings can be changed in gsettings:/net/launchpad/indicator/systemtray (use dconf-editor).

install dconf-editor

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

Be sure to use AppImage for flameshot
AppImage: https://drop.me/o293yD
latest AppImage build can be found in https://travis-ci.org/lupoDharkael/flameshot/jobs/343078928
NOTE! support left-click the flameshot icon to take a screenshot.

Ubuntu16.04 Unity:

Gif:

ZetaoYang on 19 Feb 2018

@ZetaoYang I'm probably going to sound stupid for asking this, but how do i download the package from travis-ci? Would like to know so that i can download future builds as well. Thanks

ranjitc on 19 Feb 2018

@ranjitc