Wayland support

[AndrewAmmerlaan]

Currently spotify-tray does not work properly under wayland (KDE), It fails to launch because it does not detect an X11 display:

andrew@andrew-gentoo-pc ~ % spotify-tray

** (spotify-tray:12962): CRITICAL **: 13:28:57.778: No X11 display found. Quitting.

This can be worked around with GDK_BACKEND=x11. However when launching with this variable the icon in the system tray is not properly clickable, it sometimes works (as in opens and closes spotify) but more often does nothing.

[tsmetana]

The error message you posted means spotify-tray actually works properly (i.e. as designed) under Wayland: it can't work there so it refuses to start -- fix from the commit a7a2968. I'll take a look what GDK_BACKEND impacts in Wayland, but don't hope I'll make it work -- I rely on X too much for the core functionality.
Thanks for reporting.

[AndrewAmmerlaan]

I'll take a look what GDK_BACKEND impacts in Wayland

GDK_BACKEND=x11 runs the application in the X11 compatibility mode (xwayland). It allows running legacy X11 applications in a wayland session, which usually works fine but apparently not for spotify-tray.

That applications running via xwayland don't properly interact with the system tray is probably also a bug in KDE Plasma (in fact I think it is this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433079 Hopefully when this gets fixed spotify-tray will be somewhat usable in a wayland session using the GDK_BACKEND=x11 workaround).
Anyway, it would be nice if at some point spotify-tray would work on wayland without having to explicitly run it via xwayland.

[kopr12]

Currently spotify-tray does not work properly under wayland (KDE), It fails to launch because it does not detect an X11 display:

That might work on KDE because they use xembed-sni-proxy, but in other WM's under Wayland the icon isn't showing in the tray (with GDK_BACKEND=x11)
I had to make my own, I don't know how this one works, but in my version you have the icon in the tray and 4 actions in the menu when you right click on it, Play/Pause, Previous track, Next track and Quit. Single click on it with the left click does the Play/Pause.

I didn't upload it yet, if you're interested let me know and I will.

[tsmetana]

OK. I don't think I can do much about this. Closing.