Overriding Steam Tray Icon

[PeakKS]

System Information

• SteamTinkerLaunch version: v12.0
• Distribution: Gentoo
• Installation Method: Portage, guru overlay

Issue Description

Whenever I click the steam tray icon it opens steamtinkerlaunch instead. If I right click the icon I still get the steam settings though.
tray_icon_hijack.webm

Logs

steamtinkerlaunch.log

[sonic2kk]

This is a Desktop Environment/Yad issue and not a SteamTinkerLaunch issue, there isn't anything I can really do about this I'm afraid. Sorry about that 😦

It might be worth trying to reproduce generally with Yad and reporting it upstream if you can do it with a minimal reproduction test-case.

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As a workaround, if you don't use the tray icon, you can disable it in the SteamTinkerLaunch Global Menu: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Tray-Icon

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There were no changes to the tray icon addition for a very long time, but just as a courtesy heads-up, you're using an outdated version of SteamTinkerLaunch. You might want to ask whoever the STL Gentoo package maintainer is to update it :-)

The Yad version in use is also very old, v10.1, which is from May 2021. It is possible that a newer version of Yad could fix this issue. The latest available Yad version is 12.3, so I would also recommend trying that before potentially reporting any issues upstream.

[PeakKS]

Did a bit more digging and it seems this is an issue with the tray icons reloaded gnome extension. If steam is not already open it prefers steamtinkerlaunch for whatever reason.

[sonic2kk]

Thanks, I will make a note of this on the wiki 👍

EDIT: Added: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Tray-Icon#gnome-tray-icons-reloaded-extension