Tdesktop: Telegram -startintray does not work in wayland. In wayland there is no tray icon at all

[rbieb]

Steps to reproduce

1. Run wayland
2. Run telegram -startintray
3. Check if you see a tray icon
   

   Expected behaviour

Tray icon should appear as expected

Actual behaviour

There is no tray icon

Configuration

Fedora 24 with gnome

Version of Telegram Desktop:
0.9.49

[john-preston]

@rbieb Well, -startintray can possibly work only if the tray icon is working when you just run Telegram. Looks like the tray icon is not supported in Tdesktop for this desktop env. I use standard Qt tray icon QSystemTrayIcon class — perhaps it is a Qt issue that it is not working in wayland.

[stek29]

@john-preston isn't it Gnome?

[john-preston]

@stek29 For some Qt version I had to disable Qt tray for gnome (and pantheon), perhaps I need to test it once more with the current Qt version (5.6), maybe it works fine already.

[diazbastian]

@rbieb Could you be more specific with your system configuration?
The tray icon don't work in gnome-shell using both X11 or Wayland unless you have installed the package "libappindicator"

Tested on:
• Fedora 23 Workstation (Gnome) using X11 and Wayland session
• Fedora 24 Workstation beta (Gnome) using X11 and Wayland session
• Telegram Desktop 0.9.49

[rbieb]

I did have libappindicator installed.

[diazbastian]

@rbieb It would be good to attach the log, because I can not replicate this error.

[rbieb]

I would if I could, but I'm no longer running gnome or wayland, thanks for looking into it though.

[GreenRiverRUS]

@diazbastian I can help to replicate error. I use Gnome on Wayland on Arch Linux and has no telegram icon in system tray. Libappindicator is installed:

~/$ sudo pacman -Qs libappindicator
local/libappindicator-gtk2 12.10.0-10
    Allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar
local/libappindicator-gtk3 12.10.0-10
    Allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar
local/libappindicator-sharp 12.10.0-10
    Allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar

[Tomoms]

On Fedora 24, that uses Gnome 3.20.2 running on Wayland, Telegram starts correctly when ran with the --startintray option, but there is no tray icon. Same thing happens when starting it from Gnome shell's app menu. Starting Telegram from Gnome shell makes a tray icon appear only when running Gnome in Xorg.

[jacobmischka]

This seems to still be a problem. I have libappindicator installed as well, the tray icon shows up in Xorg but not when using Wayland.

I'm not sure if this is Wayland's fault or not. From what I can find qt5's system tray icons should work I think, so I'm not sure where the issue is.

Thanks!

[makruiten]

There is a workaround and a possible fix available here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389875

[Aokromes]

2092 generic bug?

[acerv]

I had the same problem with Debian Stretch + GNOME3 (with Topicons plus extension). I've solved this problem removing libappindicator3-1 but letting libappindicator1 installed.

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