Wire-desktop: Tray icon doesn't change on new messages in GNU/Linux

[alien2003]

In Windows when the message is received and the window is not active tray icon changes (blue corner) indicating about new messages. In GNU/Linux nothing happens, only dbus notificaition pops up, icon remains white.

Linux Mint 18 x64 (Ubuntu 16.04)

[EgbertW]

FYI: In my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 the tray icon does change: a blue dot appears in the top right corner of the tray icon.

[ConorIA]

@alien2003, what version are you running? There was an issue some time ago where a bug stopped the badge from working in Linux (#264), but that has since been resolved.

[lipis]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and it works.. I hope it's just an older version of the app before the #264 fix as @ConorIA mentioned..

[alien2003]

@ConorIA I've installed it in January. 2.11.2685-33. No badge and that is very annoying

[ffflorian]

@alien2003 Which Desktop Manager are you using? For Mint there are at least three default options and IMO in this case that's more important than the Linux version.

As a sidenote: on Debian 8 + Gnome 3 it works correctly.

[alien2003]

@ffflorian Xfce and it uses usual tray icons, not only indicators and Wire appears as usual tray icon which supports right click

[gregor]

Version 2.11.2685 is confirmed to be affected by the bug that the icon is missing on Linux. It will work properly again in the next release. Fix #264 was merged after cut off for 2.11.2685. Thereby closing this issue.

[alien2003]

And still not fixed. It makes Wire unusable at all

[ConorIA]

@alien2003, the issue is fixed in upstream. If you are running a Debian-based OS, you can use the instructions in the repo readme to roll a fresh .deb to install. Otherwise you'll have to wait until the devs publish new binaries on the website.

[ffflorian]

@alien2003 You could also use my Wire Desktop build script for Debian. :slightly_smiling_face: