System tray buggy

[grenzor]

When I first upgraded to 2.8, everything seemed fine for system tray. But after a few restarts, programs that are supposed to be appearing on system tray are not appearing - even after opening a program fresh.

[leigh123linux]

You probably need to disable appindicator support.

#4741

[JosephMcc]

Could you be a bit more specific as to what apps are having issues?

[grenzor]

Update Manager has stopped showing up in systray even after doing what is said in comment 2 and opening update manager.

[JosephMcc]

Update manger seems fine here. If you open it and go to Edit->Preferences do you possibly have "Hide the update manager after applying updates" and "Only show a tray icon when updates are available" turned on.

[grenzor]

Both are turned off.

[geckolinux]

I am also having many problems with the Cinnamon 2.8 system tray (Manjaro Linux). I had to adjust the autostart delay on most of my applications, or else they wouldn't appear in the system tray. The behavior is the same both before and after I disabled indicator support in Cinnamon. And no matter what I do, I can't get Pidgin's icon to work correctly. The Pidgin system tray icon does not appear immediately after Pidgin launches like it used to, there is a strange delay of 5 - 10 seconds. Then when it appears there is a graphical glitch in the corner of the icon. And finally after a few conversations and/or status changes, it stops showing.

Sorry, it looks like this was happening because of the outdated Cinnamon 2.6 theme I was using. Seems OK now with the theme updated to the 2.8 version.

[geckolinux]

Sorry, it looks like this was happening because of the outdated Cinnamon 2.6 theme I was using. Seems OK now with the theme updated to the 2.8 version.

It appears that the bug does indeed exist. Just to be sure, I enabled the default "cinnamon" theme, and the bug is still occurring.

First, the Pidgin icon appears at the wrong size:

Then after receiving a message it is supposed to flash the system tray icon. Instead, it disappears:

[PNH1960]

Linux Mint 17.2 64 bit Cinnamon 2.6.13.

I have exactly the same problem with the system tray and the Update Manager icon. It suddenly disappeared and does not come back after reboots, shut downs and checking update manager config (I change it back and forth after the problem appeared, but it makes no difference.

I am new to Linux so I can't say much more.