Is it possible to disable appindicator support ?

[YamashitaRen]

I am using LXQt.
The other day, I installed KDE Connect which pulled in libappindicator-gtk3.
Now electron apps like Skype and Discord use the appindicator instead of the old systray implementation.
I do not want them to do this. The current appindicator implementation is terrible and vastly inferior to the old systray. (no "open with left click"...)

Is there a way to force electron apps to use systray instead of appindicator without having to uninstall libappindicator-gtk3 ?

[vladimiry]

Electron v8 comes with tray icon internals change on Linux, see #21445 and #10427 (comment).

[YamashitaRen]

This is great !
However, I am not sure downstream will update to Electron v8 quickly enough so I would like to know if there is a workaround for older Electron in the meantime...

[codebytere]

Sadly no - that change was motivated by an upstream change to Chromium which is unfortunately not backportable. If something surfaces that somehow enables a workaround I'll return to this issue to update it accordingly, but for now i'm closing this out.

[jhasse]

I do not want them to do this. The current appindicator implementation is terrible and vastly inferior to the old systray. (no "open with left click"...)

I would suggest trying to get that fixed in the appindicator implementation (the spec supports an activation event which usually gets triggered on double click).