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A few months ago, the Xubuntu installation on my laptop developed this odd issue where the Status Tray wouldn't populate at all on login. if I restarted the panel with Xkill, some icons come back; the Network Manager and Blueman applets return, but nothing else ever does.
Deleting all my Xfce configuration seems to make the problem go away, but as soon as I change anything it seems to come back. What could be causing this?
SOLVED: Problem was a bug with Ayatana Indicators; solution was to run
# dpkg-reconfigure ayatana-indicator-application
and restart the panel.
Last edited by MxSelfDestruct (2023-11-14 22:12:20)
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Hello and welcome.
We'll need some more information:
distro version
Xfce version:
xfce4-about -V
xfce4-panel version:
xfce4-panel -V
panel configuration:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv
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I'm using Xubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
$ xfce4-about -V
xfce4-about 4.16.1 (Xfce 4.16)
Copyright (c) 2008-2019
The Xfce development team. All rights reserved.
Please report bugs to <[url]https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/issues[/url]>.
$ xfce4-panel -V
xfce4-panel 4.16.3 (Xfce 4.16)
Copyright (c) 2004-2011
The Xfce development team. All rights reserved.
Please report bugs to <[url]http://bugzilla.xfce.org/[/url]>.
$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv
/configver 2
/panels 1
/panels/dark-mode false
/panels/panel-0/autohide-behavior 0
/panels/panel-0/background-rgba <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/panels/panel-0/background-style 1
/panels/panel-0/icon-size 0
/panels/panel-0/length 100
/panels/panel-0/length-adjust true
/panels/panel-0/mode 0
/panels/panel-0/plugin-ids <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/panels/panel-0/position p=8;x=960;y=1067
/panels/panel-0/position-locked true
/panels/panel-0/size 24
/panels/panel-0/span-monitors false
/plugins/plugin-1 whiskermenu
/plugins/plugin-10 clock
/plugins/plugin-10/digital-format %d %b, %H:%M:%S
/plugins/plugin-10/tooltip-format %A, %d %B, %Y (%Y-%m-%d)
/plugins/plugin-11 systemload
/plugins/plugin-11/cpu/label
/plugins/plugin-11/memory/label
/plugins/plugin-11/network/enabled false
/plugins/plugin-11/network/label
/plugins/plugin-11/swap/enabled false
/plugins/plugin-11/swap/label
/plugins/plugin-11/uptime/enabled false
/plugins/plugin-12 netload
/plugins/plugin-2 weather
/plugins/plugin-2/cache-max-age 172800
/plugins/plugin-2/forecast/days 5
/plugins/plugin-2/forecast/layout 1
/plugins/plugin-2/location/latitude (Removed for privacy)
/plugins/plugin-2/location/longitude (Removed for privacy)
/plugins/plugin-2/location/name (Removed for privacy)
/plugins/plugin-2/msl 1
/plugins/plugin-2/offset (Removed for privacy)
/plugins/plugin-2/power-saving true
/plugins/plugin-2/round true
/plugins/plugin-2/scrollbox/animate true
/plugins/plugin-2/scrollbox/color rgba(0,0,0,0)
/plugins/plugin-2/scrollbox/lines 1
/plugins/plugin-2/scrollbox/show true
/plugins/plugin-2/scrollbox/use-color false
/plugins/plugin-2/single-row false
/plugins/plugin-2/theme-dir /usr/share/xfce4/weather/icons/simplistic
/plugins/plugin-2/timezone (Removed for privacy)
/plugins/plugin-2/tooltip-style 1
/plugins/plugin-2/units/altitude 0
/plugins/plugin-2/units/apparent-temperature 1
/plugins/plugin-2/units/precipitation 0
/plugins/plugin-2/units/pressure 0
/plugins/plugin-2/units/temperature 0
/plugins/plugin-2/units/windspeed 0
/plugins/plugin-3 tasklist
/plugins/plugin-3/flat-buttons true
/plugins/plugin-3/grouping 0
/plugins/plugin-3/middle-click 1
/plugins/plugin-3/show-handle true
/plugins/plugin-3/show-labels true
/plugins/plugin-3/show-wireframes false
/plugins/plugin-3/sort-order 4
/plugins/plugin-4 separator
/plugins/plugin-4/expand true
/plugins/plugin-4/style 0
/plugins/plugin-5 systray
/plugins/plugin-5/hidden-items <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-5/hidden-legacy-items <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-5/hide-new-items false
/plugins/plugin-5/icon-size 0
/plugins/plugin-5/known-items <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-5/known-legacy-items <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-5/menu-is-primary true
/plugins/plugin-5/show-frame false
/plugins/plugin-5/single-row true
/plugins/plugin-5/size-max 22
/plugins/plugin-5/square-icons true
/plugins/plugin-5/symbolic-icons true
/plugins/plugin-6 notification-plugin
/plugins/plugin-7 power-manager-plugin
/plugins/plugin-9 pulseaudio
/plugins/plugin-9/blacklisted-players
/plugins/plugin-9/enable-keyboard-shortcuts true
/plugins/plugin-9/enable-mpris true
/plugins/plugin-9/enable-wnck true
/plugins/plugin-9/mixer-command pavucontrol
/plugins/plugin-9/mpris-players
/plugins/plugin-9/show-notifications true
Incidentally, this is exactly the same panel config I use on my desktop (minus the power manager plugin), where the status tray works perfectly fine. I suspect the issue has something to do with caching?
Last edited by MxSelfDestruct (2023-11-14 19:25:09)
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You have an older version of Xfce. Have a read through this thread regarding an interference issue with the ayatana indicator to see if it applies and potentially fixes your issue.
If not, what are some of the icons that don't return?
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Skimmed the linked thread, and ran
# dpkg-reconfigure ayatana-indicator-application
on a hunch; this seems to have cleared it up. Before this, the only icons that would ever appear were for the Network Manager and Blueman applets; Transmission, Mullvad, Discord, and Telegram did not get tray icons even when they ought to. Marking as solved.
Last edited by MxSelfDestruct (2023-11-14 22:13:12)
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