Zulip-desktop: Tray Icon disappears on Screen Lock & Unlock

[punchagan]

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I'm on Ubuntu Focal (GNOME Shell 3.36.0).

When running the desktop app on the latest master, the tray icon seems to disappear when I lock my screen and unlock it. Hard reloading the app seems to restore it. CZO discussion here.

[andersk]

This seems to be an upstream problem that affects all applications, so there probably isn’t anything we can do. See ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator#75.

[fauust]

Same here, tray icon has just gone

OS: Debian Buster
Window manager: i3wm + polybar

[fauust]

Any chance that this could be related to https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21445?
See also https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/23347.

[imolein]

Same here, tray icon is gone since I updated the desktop app to version 5.0.0.

OS: Xubuntu 18.04.3
WM: XFCE

[dotenorio]

I solved this with this code:

  if (os.platform() !== 'linux') return

  const monit = exec(`
    dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver'" |
    while read x; do
      case "$x" in 
        *"boolean true"*) echo SCREEN_LOCKED;;
        *"boolean false"*) echo SCREEN_UNLOCKED;;  
      esac
    done
  `)

  monit.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
    const out = data.toString().trim()
    if (out === 'SCREEN_UNLOCKED') {
      tray.destroy()
      createTray()
    }
  })

You can see more about this in my repo https://github.com/dotenorio/clipboard-manager-electron/ on lib/create_window.js line 350

[imolein]

As described in comment https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21445#issuecomment-565061274 I can confirm it is working with xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin in Xubuntu 18.04

[devurandom]

On KDE Plasma, using the Flatpak, I never see any tray icon at all on these two systems (i.e. not even right after start of the application, which is a problem if startMinimized=true in ~/.config/Zulip/config/settings.json):

Operating System: Gentoo Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Kernel Version: 5.5.14
OS Type: 64-bit

Operating System: Fedora 31
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Kernel Version: 5.5.13-200.fc31.x86_64
OS Type: 64-bit

See-Also: https://github.com/flathub/org.zulip.Zulip/issues/18

[fauust]

Hi!
Since 5.0.0 was released (19 days ago) the tray icon is completely missing. If my understanding is correct this is not directly related to zulip but to electron https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21445.

I have tried to revert to 4.0.3 version but this seems to be impossible, I have also looked for beta releases following https://zulipchat.com/help/desktop-app-install-guide#install-a-beta-release.

So my only solution for now is to use the browser version or to live without tray icon and the notification counter...

Does anybody has a workaround to share with me? Building a version from source is an option I could consider of course!

Regards,
Faustin

[fauust]

Side note: my issue is not exactly this one (tray icon is totally missing), should I open a new issue?

[akashnimare]

@fauust please file a new bug with detailed info (Linux distro, app installer type etc).

[devurandom]

Side note: my issue is not exactly this one (tray icon is totally missing), should I open a new issue?

@fauust please file a new bug with detailed info (Linux distro, app installer type etc).

@fauust Please link it here afterwards, since I am having the exact same issue.

See-Also: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/issues/910#issuecomment-609930694
See-Also: https://github.com/flathub/org.zulip.Zulip/issues/18

[fauust]

@akashnimare done https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/issues/936

[abhigyank]

@punchagan A chromium bug was created for this
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1042098 .
There is also a Gnome level issue at https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/issues/220

I guess we have to wait for this to be fixed upstream. Till then one may build out of the hack of #922 if necessary.

[punchagan]

Till then one may build out of the hack of #922 if necessary.

I think it is worth doing the hackish fix.

[abhigyank]

Electron is restoring to the original way of implementation for tray icon, so that should fix this issue for us. https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/23674

[abhigyank]

@punchagan Can you test on the latest release? Electron has restored to the original way of implementation so this should be fixed in the older release.

[fauust]

Latest version working again, see https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/issues/936#issuecomment-649344282

My setup:

• debian 10
• i3wm
• polybar

[punchagan]

@punchagan Can you test on the latest release?

I see the icon now, but I don't see the correct icon. I see ellipsis being shown instead of the Zulip logo. :see_no_evil:

[punchagan]

I see the icon now, but I don't see the correct icon. I see ellipsis being shown instead of the Zulip logo. see_no_evil

This was when I was running from source. The snap shows the icon correctly. Just adding a note for completeness.