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cinnamon package

cinnamon tray doesn't show many tray icons

Bug #1909172 reported by Tessa
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Bug Description

I haven't used cinnamon before, so I don't know if this is normal, but there's tons of apps which relay on system tray functionality that don't show up in the cinnamon tray. For example: telegram, barrier, ipfs-desktop, discord, etc.

These apps all show up correctly in the gnome3 tray under the default desktop env, so it seems to be something where the cinnamon isn't supporting all the different systray standards. Note that my panel claims to have both the "system tray" and "xapp status applet" apples active, so hopefully there's nothing additional that's required to get proper tray support working.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: cinnamon 4.6.7-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-33.36-lowlatency 5.8.17
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-33-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Wed Dec 23 20:22:28 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-15 (162 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: cinnamon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-24 (61 days ago)

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Tessa (unit3) wrote :
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Tessa (unit3) wrote :

it's also worth noting that a small minority of icons do show up. syncthing, guake, and ibus all show up correctly.

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Joshua Peisach (itzswirlz) wrote :

I need to check this. I think they should show up normally in the tray. not sure

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Tessa (unit3) wrote :

as a point of side comparison, the system that was exhibiting this behaviour was reinstalled with Arch, also running cinnamon, and it doesn't exhibit these symptoms there. so if you can't replicate this issue it may have been some one off config error with that specific box.

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