Tray vanishing at random instances

[nots1dd]

Hi, I have been using waybar for over a month now and I have noticed a lot of instances where my tray just randomly vanishes. Killing waybar and restarting this also does not work and the issue that it pops up this error Host: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject: No such object path '/StatusNotifierWatcher'

I have looked into this error to an extent and I do have a DBUS with a path /StatusNotifierWatcher. This error just disappears when I logout or reboot my pc. Are there any other issues that are similar to this so I can get a kind of hotfix?

[Pyenb]

Have been stuck on almost the same problem. Right after setting up, the tray worked fine, but now it won't show up anymore at all. But I don't know what I installed to break it. Imma comment if I have anything new.

[nots1dd]

@Pyenb what DE do you use? Also does your tray work after rebooting or logging out?

[Pyenb]

I use Hyprland and no, my tray never works. It worked right after setting up waybar, but then just stopped working.

[nots1dd]

When you run waybar in your terminal, what error does it give?

[Pyenb]

I don't have access to my machine right now, so I don't have the exact output. But I am getting the exact same error as you. But nothing that would indicate why the tray isn't working

[dinhokusanagi]

I have the same problem after the last version update
'Waybar v0.10.0'

[Pyenb]

I have the same problem after the last version update
'Waybar v0.10.0'

Have you tried downgrading?

[nots1dd]

I have the same problem after the last version update
'Waybar v0.10.0'

Have you tried downgrading?

I am getting the issue even for version 0.9.24 so i dont think downgrading is fixing it.

[AQDuck97]

New waybar/hyprland user and figured I did something wrong, the last time it disappeared it was right after I took a screenshot using grim/slurp with this script:

#! /bin/sh
pic="$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +'%s_grim.png')"
grim -l 9 -cg "$(slurp -d)" $pic
wl-copy < $pic

But it has disappeared out of the blue before so maybe that was just a bad timing

[nots1dd]

I have noticed this issue, but when i tried to reproduce the issue by taking a screenshot using a script that had the following:
grim
satty
dunst
grim
slurp
However, I found that the issue is not consistent with just taking a screenshot. Sometimes it disappears and sometimes it doesn't and I dont have an explanation as to why that is

New waybar/hyprland user and figured I did something wrong, the last time it disappeared it was right after I took a screenshot using grim/slurp with this script:

#! /bin/sh
pic="$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +'%s_grim.png')"
grim -l 9 -cg "$(slurp -d)" $pic
wl-copy < $pic

But it has disappeared out of the blue before so maybe that was just a bad timing

[AQDuck97]

What items do you have in the tray when it has disappeared? I usually have Spotify (flatpak), Discord (Arch repo), KDE-Connect and Steam

[bruceblore]

Tray not working for me at all after upgrade to 0.10.0, but not fixed after downgrading to 0.9.24 or even 0.9.22. I usually have ferdium and nm-applet in my tray, but do not remember what exactly was there when it stopped working

[gfhdhytghd]

I have the same problem, the tray won't work after restart the waybar(pkill waybar&&waybar)

[gfhdhytghd]

I fixed it by downgrade libappindicator-gtk3 to 12.10.0.r296, maybe someone should report the bug to that developer