Signal does not launch window on startup on Wayland when --use-tray-icon is set

[rieje]

Using a supported version?

• I have searched searched open and closed issues for duplicates.
• I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.

Overall summary

Signal does not launch window on startup on Wayland when --use-tray-icon is set:

# Launches both Signal window and tray icon
/usr/bin/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon

# Launches only Signal window and tray icon
/usr/bin/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon --ozone-platform=wayland 

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P.S. on every restart of Signal, I get this error even though it's only SIGTERM. Any ideas?

Steps to reproduce

Run:

/usr/bin/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon
/usr/bin/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon --ozone-platform=wayland 

Expected result

Running it as a Wayland application should launch both window and tray icon, matching the behavior of running it as an X11 application.

Actual result

It only starts Signal with the tray icon, i.e. the window must be opened manually on every startup.

Signal version

7.1.1

Operating system

Arch Linux

[ayumi-signal]

Thanks for reporting this, and sorry it's happening for you. This is a duplicate of #6740 where --ozone-platform=wayland isn't working properly, so we'll track it there.