Ipfs-desktop: Tray icon unresponsive

[StupidDuck]

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04, fresh install, updated
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.11.4 (snap)

Describe the bug
The icon tray does not respond to click event

Expected behavior
Context menu should appear

Additional context
Tested on a newly installed ubuntu 20.04, all updated, Gnome 3.36.2

[jayschwa]

Possible upstream issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21576

[jayschwa]

A fix has allegedly been merged into Electron (and backported to older release branches). https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/23674

[jayschwa]

I experience this issue only when using the snap package. The tray icon menu works when using the Debian package.

[Azulan]

I also have the same issue using the snap package on Xubuntu 20.04. This also creates a situation in which I cannot exit the application once I start it. Closing the window has no effect and the notification icon is useless. Please include a way to exit and terminate that doesn't rely on the icon.

[jessicaschilling]

@lidel and/or @rafaelramalho19 - FYI, thanks!

[SvenMeyer]

System : Manjaro / Arch Linux + cinnamon
Version : ipfs-desktop 0.11.3-1 (from AUR)

During the last weeks I had strange router chrashes and freeze-ups, spent hours with ISP support, but only after I installed "Net Activity Viewer", I realized that there were still 3 IPFS destops, ~30 ipfs processes running, and 300 open network connections made by IPFS (so it looks like the cheap ISP router could not handle the amount of netcwork connections - of which I was not aware all the time.)
I haven't seen a tray icon for a week, and if I re-started ipfs-desktop, I just got another process running with no way to close all ipfs processes and network connections ...

Looks like the whole "tray icon issue" is a mess and maintainer of the Arch Linux AUR package already submitted a pull request.
https://github.com/develar/app-builder/pull/29

[lidel]

Correct, Electron team broke tray support by merging Chromium changes, then backed out of them, in the meantime some distros and desktop environments introduced workaround and patches, some did not, tray icon UX and DX in Linux ecosystem is beyond bad right now.

We are tracking this already in https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/1153#issuecomment-634293717

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However, I believe the current issue is about separate problem:

• "starting ipfs-desktop more than once (via icon or cli) spawns more than one daemon"

I believe Desktop should detect its already running, and show WebUI instead of spawning new instance. I vaguely remember us fixing that in the past, but perhaps the fix was not generic enough?

If a Linux user has bandwidth for investigating this, PR or some guidance would be appreciated :pray:

[SvenMeyer]

I my case it would already help if I could stop the daemon from running / re-starting using the tray icon menu.
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/1611

[lidel]

This should be fixed in v0.13.2.
If there are any new issues with tray, please open a new issue.