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jooch

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Registered: 2025-09-26

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Icon not showing in systray

Hi,

I'm trying to get volumeicon set up on my XFCE install, but the icon is not showing.
Trying to debug this i tried:

PANEL_DEBUG=systray xfce4-panel

Then i get the following information:

xfce4-panel(systray): allocated volumeicon[0x55f188ed6a80] at (-9999,-9999;22,22)

Why the -9999??

Last edited by jooch (2025-09-26 20:45:05)

eriefisher

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 774

Re: [SOLVED] Icon not showing in systray

How are you starting volumeicon?

volumeicon &

If this works you can just add it to the autostart list.

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jooch

Member

Registered: 2025-09-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Icon not showing in systray

For debugging i just run volumeicon from a terminal, but i also have an autostart file.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=Volumeicon
Comment=
Exec=/bin/volumeicon
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
RunHook=0
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Added later 04 min 50 s:

xfce4-panel(systray): allocated audacious[0x5654f6c15ed0] at (48,2;22,22)
xfce4-panel(systray): allocated notes[0x5654f6bab240] at (72,2;22,22)

The other programs get a valid location on the systray, i'm confused why volumicon gets -9999

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,252

Re: [SOLVED] Icon not showing in systray

You've probably been hit by the gdk-pixbuf2 bug. Long story short, they've changed some base functionality around rendering images. If you downgrade gdk-pixbuf2 to 2.42.12-2 it will work again until gdk-pixbuf2 is fixed.

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jooch

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Registered: 2025-09-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Icon not showing in systray

I knew i came to the right place. Man thanks so much for that tip, downgrading gdk-pixbuf2 fixed it.