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jakfish

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Registered: 2019-12-23

Posts: 75

Status Tray Plugin Added, But Won't Show in System Bar >SOLVED<

GPD Pocket 3; current Manjaro xfce; xfce4-panel ver. 4.20.7

Manjaro XFCE just did a huge upgrade--never good news--and it blew out Whiskers Menu (which I was able to restore), but Status Tray Plugin is in Items, can be edited, moved, but won't actually show itself. Wifi/BT both work without it.

As an aside, my GPD MPC2 just did the same Manjaro upgrade without issue.

Any handle to jiggle?

Thanks,
Jake

Last edited by jakfish (2026-05-18 15:05:30)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Status Tray Plugin Added, But Won't Show in System Bar >SOLVED<

Status Tray will only "show itself" if there are items for it to show.

Wifi/BT both work without it.

You must have another tray plugin running. What does the following return:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep "[0-9] "

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jakfish

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Registered: 2019-12-23

Posts: 75

Re: Status Tray Plugin Added, But Won't Show in System Bar >SOLVED<

Thanks, ToZ. Upon deeper investigation, it turned out that a broken Manjaro update blew out a bunch of /usr/lib/* and I couldn't find a way to reinstall them.

Just as well--Manjaro updates are becoming more and more like Windows updates, best-of-luck, heart-in-mouth, so I did an install of MX Linux xfce and things are swimming again.

Last edited by jakfish (2026-05-18 15:07:05)