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d1rge

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Registered: 2016-07-03

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Calibre doesn't appear in notification area / system tray.

I've recently switched to XFCE 4.12 on a newly installed 64 bit Arch system.
Linux kernel is 4.6.3 
I'm using Calibre 2.60.0.

Under Preference | Look and Feel I have the option Enable System Tray Icon (needs restart) set to true.
After re-starting, Calibre doesn't appear in the Notifiaction Area / System Tray.
When I close it, I expect it to remain in memory and appear in the notification area.
However it closes and never appears in the notification area whether maximised, minimised even when open.

Other applications appear in the Notification area - e.g. Thunderbird and Clementine.

Is there any way to get Calibre into the notification area?
Is this a XCFE bug / Calibre bug or expected?

Last edited by d1rge (2016-07-03 05:24:19)

ToZ

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Re: Calibre doesn't appear in notification area / system tray.

Hello and welcome.

If you run calibre from the terminal, do you get any error messages? Maybe it uses the status notifier spec for tray icons - which I believe xfce4-panel's systray plugin doesn't support. If so, there is an xfce sntray plugin in the AUR that is supposed to support this spec.

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d1rge

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Registered: 2016-07-03

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Re: Calibre doesn't appear in notification area / system tray.

Hi ToZ,
You're right - I should have tried from the terminal first.

$ calibre
Failed to create system tray icon, your desktop environment probably does not support the StatusNotifier spec

I wasn't aware there were different systray specs.
That AUR package you mention looks like it will help, but one of the dependcies fails.
Still made some progress now - thanks.

MountainDewManiac

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Re: Calibre doesn't appear in notification area / system tray.

Hello and welcome.

If you run calibre from the terminal, do you get any error messages? Maybe it uses the status notifier spec for tray icons - which I believe xfce4-panel's systray plugin doesn't support. If so, there is an xfce sntray plugin in the AUR that is supposed to support this spec.

Would it appear in "Indicator Plugin?" I have that on one of my panels (different distro, though) that my volume (sound) app, CPU frequency adjuster app, and a couple other get placed into.

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d1rge

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Re: Calibre doesn't appear in notification area / system tray.

There is an Indicator Plugin in the AUR for Arch, but that says it's for Unity.