No tray icon on Fedora/Gnome

[ruffson]

Hi there,
sadly there is no tray icon on Fedora31 with Gnome 3.34.3 and Signal version 1.31.0.
I have enabled the extensions KStatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator (aka ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator) and TopIcons Plus.
Is there a way to enable is? Do I have to install yet another gnome extension to make it work? Any help is appreciated!s

[bermeitinger-b]

You have to run it with flatpak run org.signal.Signal --use-tray-icon.

[ruffson]

You have to run it with flatpak run org.signal.Signal --use-tray-icon.

Thank you @bermeitinger-b. Is there a way to make this the defaul so I can call it like that when I open the .desktop file via Gnome?

[mlaradji]

@ruffson Edit the .desktop (for me it's in /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/current/active/export/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop) file and change:

Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=signal --file-forwarding org.signal.Signal @@u %U @@

to

Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=signal --file-forwarding org.signal.Signal @@u %U @@ --use-tray-icon

You can also add the flag --start-in-tray like:

Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=signal --file-forwarding org.signal.Signal @@u %U @@ --use-tray-icon --start-in-tray

Note that launching the shortcut from the start menu (on KDE) does not reflect the change immediately, and I had to launch the desktop shortcut from Dolphin first (not sure why, but probably due to some sort of caching).

[ruffson]

Thank you!

[MaCroX95]

I don't see tray icon with --use-tray-icon option. It works on my deb-installed beta package but not on the flatpak one.

[cachandlerdev]

Unfortunately, the issue with this fix is that it has to be reapplied every time the app updates. Are there any plans to make this default behavior in the future?

Edit: Apparently this can also be enabled via an environment variable in Flatseal, rather than manually changing the Signal.desktop file. Just add SIGNAL_USE_TRAY_ICON=1.

[Earthling-Z3R0]

I didn't see a tray icon either using the above string but it worked for me when I changed it to this:

Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=signal-desktop --file-forwarding --use-tray-icon org.signal.Signal @@u %U @@

[awkto]

On the latest flatpak, I get this error when trying to add the '--use-tray-icon' option

error: Unknown option --use-tray-icon