System tray icon missing

[nightsky30]

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
XFCE 4.12
qBittorrent 3.3.12
libtorrent-rasterbar8 1.0.11+git20172002.ecd20f15cb-1ppa1~xenial1
libqt5core5a 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2

What is the problem:

System tray icon missing

What is the expected behavior:

System tray icon should be visible

Steps to reproduce:

Start qBittorrent with option enabled to show qBittorrent in notification area

[fbriere]

I assume that other applications with a system tray icon are working correctly for you?

Are you using XFCE's native panel? If so, did you check if qBittorrent was flagged as Hidden in the Notification Area panel item configuration?

[nightsky30]

Yes, notifications were working for other apps. I'm not 100% sure whether I was using indicator or systray. I was using the XFCE desktop, but not Xubuntu-desktop. As I understand it, there are differences with what Canonical sets as the defaults between the two DE options.

I actually just switched to a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04 yesterday, and am currently using the indicator plugin within the Xubuntu-desktop DE:

xfce4-indicator-plugin v2.3.3

Since moving to 17.04, I installed qbittorrent again, but this time it installed 3.3.7

I experienced the missing system tray icon initially, even with the proper settings enabled. I then toggled them a few times and restarted qbittorrent. It has since continued to show the system tray icon properly based on settings.

I've tried to reproduce the issue in 17.04 with 3.3.7, but have not seen it since first installing and configuring.

I'm not planning on returning to 16.04 LTS because 17.04 has better hardware support for my system.

I could try the vanilla XFCE DE in 17.04, but I'm not sure what that might do to my current settings. One would hope they are maintained separately...

[zeule]

Could you please run the following little script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk

import sys

icon_name = sys.argv[1]
icon_theme = Gtk.IconTheme.get_default()
icon = icon_theme.lookup_icon(icon_name, 48, 0)
if icon:
    print (icon.get_filename())
else:
    print ("not found")

3 times with arguments "qbittorrent-tray", "qbittorrent-tray-dark", and "qbittorrent-tray-light" and post outputs?

[zeule]

How did you install qBitttorrent? What is the package source?

[zeule]

Sorry, I can't give you any support for so old version (3.3.1). Please update your installation.

[zeule]

OK, thanks. What is your setting for the "Tray icon style" option (visible in the second screenshot in this thread)?

[zeule]

What is the value of the "Use system icons" option (advanced settings)? If it is disabled, could you try to enable it and restart qBt, please?

[zeule]

Thanks. I'm out of ideas currently. For the record: with 3.3.16 it should work only with "Use system icons" enabled and "Tray icon style" set to "Normal". In v4.0 (not yet released) all combination should work as intended.

[hiragashi]

this is still happening. only qbittorrent gives me the blank / missing system tray - no matter what I do. XFCE4 and Arch Linux here.

although it happens on Ubuntu for me too. qBittorrent system tray icon is just a blank space. given up hope on it ever being fixed.

[seth100]

Same for me, suddenly missing icon after some update:

• Linux Mint 18.3 x64
• qBittorent 4.0.4
• Cinnamon 3.6.7

Any help for that?

[Alhun]

The same

• Ubuntu 18.04 x64
• XFCE 4.12
• qBittorent 4.1.0

Related? #4275

[yochananmarqos]

Same here. The tray icon is black but functional.

• Manjaro Linux
• Cinnamon 3.8.7
  Theme: Adapta-Nokto-Maia
  Icons: Papirus-Adapta-Nokto-Maia
• qBittorrent 4.1.1

[colinhd8]

Same here. The tray icon is black but functional.

• Ubuntu 18.04

• gnome 3.28.2

• qBittorrent 4.1.1

[zeule]

Could you, please, try #6659 (comment) and report back results?

[colinhd8]

I ran that script with those 3 arguments, each time it printed not found.

[zeule]

@colinhd8, your qBittorrent package simply did not install the icons for the tray then. How did you get the package? Could you give a link to it or check the package contents for the svg icon files yourself, please?

[colinhd8]

I build it from the source of v4_1_x branch, and i tried install the package version of 4.0.3, it's ok.

[shahzaibalikhan]

I am facing this similar issue, The tray icon is black but functional.

• Linux Mint 19 Tara
• Cinnamon 3.8.8
• qBittorrent 4.1.1

Installation source PPA ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

Also tried on/off "Use system icons" in advance setting with the combination of Normal/Light and Dark.

The result of given python script
$ python test.py qbittorrent-tray
/usr/share/icons/Mint-Y/panel/24/qbittorrent-tray.svg
$ python test.py qbittorrent-tray-dark
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/qbittorrent-tray-dark.svg
$ python test.py qbittorrent-tray-light
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/qbittorrent-tray-light.svg

[thisnamewereneverused]

After update of qbittorrent from v4.1.1 to v4.1.2 my menu and panel icons disappeared. I ran the terminal command line text given in FAQ, but to no avail. Please, any help on getting it back.
Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64bit
Kernel 4.15.0-
Cinnamon 3.6.7

Thanks

Solved: Thank you, the latest update solved the problem. Thanks again.

[moraveyo]

My menu icon disappeared too.
Ubuntu 16.04 x64
XFCE 4.12
qBittorent 4.1.2

[moraveyo]

Just updated, and the menu icon is back!

[ngosang]

We are closing all issues related to old qBittorrent versions (qBittorrent < 4.1.0).
Please, update to last release and, if the bug/error/crash is still present, open another issue.
Thank you.

[dietpizza]

This is still happening
QBittorrent v4.1.5
Arch Linux