Missing tray icon for 4.9.0-2652 on Linux

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#690 Missing tray icon for 4.9.0-2652 on Linux

Milestone: v4.9.0

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2018-11-21

Created: 2018-09-09

Creator: Jon Schewe (BBN)

Private: No

I just downloaded 4.9.0-2652 for Linux. I installed the deb file. When running davmail I find that it no longer goes to my tray, but rather brings up a window that stays live. I did see an error about failing to load the canberry library. So I stopped davmail and installed it and then restarted. The error went away, but I stil don't have anything in my tray, just the window.

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 using OpenJDK 1.8.0.

Is this expected behavior in the new version? What information can I provide to help debug this?

Discussion

Jon Schewe (BBN) - 2018-09-10

I see in the release notes that this is explicitly disabled "- Linux: disable system tray on Ubuntu 18". Any background on this and what we shoudl be doing on Ubuntu 18?

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Mickael Guessant - 2018-09-10

That's because Java and SWT trays are not supported by Ubuntu 18.

You can try with:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP= && davmail

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Jon Schewe (BBN) - 2018-09-10

That works nicely!

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- Mickael Guessant - 2018-09-11
  
  You mean you get the tray icon ?
  
  Doesnt work here on a fresh install, did you do anything to enable application tray icons ?
  
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  - Jon Schewe (BBN) - 2018-09-11
    
    Yes, I get a tray icon. I have Ubuntu appindicators and Topicons installed as gnome extensions.
    
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Mickael Guessant - 2018-10-01

status: open --> pending-fixed
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Mickael Guessant - 2018-10-01

Ok, in order to run DavMail with systray on Ubuntu 18, you need:

Top icons and appindicator:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-top-icons gnome-shell-extension-appindicator gnome-tweak-tool

Enable both in Tweaks

Then run DavMail:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP= && davmail

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Mickael Guessant - 2018-11-21

status: pending-fixed --> closed-fixed
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Mickael Guessant - 2018-11-21

Released in 5.0.0

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Jon Schewe (BBN) - 2018-11-21

Is it expected that with 5.0.0 I still need to clear XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP?

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- Mickael Guessant - 2018-11-21
  
  Yes, most users do not read the doc at:
  http://davmail.sourceforge.net/linuxsetup.html
  
  ... and will not understand why they don't see any window or tray icon.
  
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