[Bug]: No Tray icon for Arch Linux

[trungutt]

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Electron Version

22.0.0

What operating system are you using?

Other Linux

Operating System Version

Arch Linux, Manjaro

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

22.0.0

Expected Behavior

Be able to use Electron tray API

Actual Behavior

I cannot have any Tray icon showing up since the last release of Electron 22.0.0. I believe we change the underlying implementation for Tray API with this PR.

With Electron <= 21, it worked fine

Here's the info of OS we're using

$ uname -a
Linux tower 6.0.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:25:31 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

or

$ uname -a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Linux manjaro 5.15.60-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 11 13:14:05 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I attached the minimum reproduction example here. Steps:

• yarn install
• then yarn start
• cannot see the Tray icon
• yarn add --dev electron@21.3.3
• yarn start again
• then we see the Tray icon again (should be a T-shirt png)

electron-tray-22.zip

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

We don't experience this issue for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu

[SpacingBat3]

@trungutt this actually depends on the DE – some seems work, others don't seem to support StatusIconLinuxDbus

For me on Arch Linux everything works as it should be, at least on XFCE.

[trungutt]

Given the PR changing to use StatusIconLinuxDbus is supposed to solve serious Tray issues on Linux, especially the one onsetImage segfault, I can't wait to upgrade to Electron 22.

But given this issue, it would be great to hear from Electron team on it. If StatusIconLinuxDbus isn't supported, I guess it would be nice to have a fallback to libapindicator on those DE.

Perhaps downgrading to 21.3.3 is a temporary solution for us, which has the downside of setImage segfault obviously

[JokerGermany]

any news?

[zcbenz]

@trungutt On which desktop environment do you have this problem?

[aiordache]

@zcbenz This happens on Arch Linux with i3 and Xorg (session started with startx).

[rhertzog]

FTR a friend of mine using i3 on Debian (without any desktop environment) has this issue.

I am using Debian unstable with GNOME 43 and I don't have the problem so far.

[zcbenz]

Thanks for the information, it seems that i3 has always had issues with Chromium's implementations of tray icons (which we started using since #36472): i3/i3#3842.

I'll see if I can fix it, if not I can make our code fallback to use libappindicator for i3.

[zcbenz]

I think I know the root cause now, i3 actually has no support for modern app indicators, and apps using libappindicator will fallback to use GtkStatusIcon instead.

[iacore]

I use Polybar. Same issue here. Downgrading to electron 20 worked

[JokerGermany]

I use Ubuntu Mate 22.04, had no Problems with old electron version.