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#1262 Tray/Autotype problems after Fedora upgrade
With Fedora 22 MATE, pwsafe 0.96BETA3 no longer shows itself in the system tray. Also, Autotype stopped working. This applies to the x86_64.rpm from sourceforge, as well as custom built rpms.
An older binary built on Fedora 17 (w/Gnome2). when run under F22 Mate, does show itself in the system tray. However Autotype still doesn't work.
I have a similar issue with system tray icon in F22 KDE, though I'm not sure it's related. In the case of KDE this is possibly due to a switch xembed icon specification to a specification called Status Notifier. I think GTK-based desktops might also be switching to this specification. If so, your icon issue in F22 MATE may be related to my issue in F22 KDE.
References (seem to mention patches needed to fix the issue):
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/03/system-tray-in-plasma-next/
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/
Does F22 provide pre-built wxWidgets 3.X libraries? If not, can those rpms be downloaded from somewhere?
Or does wx3 need to be built first on F22?
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:09:48 +0000
"Saurav Ghosh" sauravg@users.sf.net wrote:
F22 provides standard rpms for both wx 2.8.12 and 3.0.2.
-- Johan
I have 3.0.2 installed and, as Johan, mentioned 2.8.12 is available.
I also noticed the following thread:
http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/15644
It looks like it could be an issue between wxwidgets and new status notifier specifications; and that is was not resolved 7 weeks ago
Can you please check if toggling the "Use Alternate Autotype method"
setting under "System" tab makes a difference? It did the trick for me in a
centos7 vm.
You may need to restart pwsafe for the setting change to take effect.
While autotype is not a problem for me, your message led me to system tab where I noticed the following:
"There appears to be no system tray support in your current environment. Any related functionality may not work as expected".
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:51:41 +0000
"Saurav Ghosh" sauravg@users.sf.net wrote:
Yes, setting Use Alternate Autotype method makes it work again.
And after I fixed the config file read problems (see
http://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/bugs/1136/) the system tray also
works. It turned out that my config file was not read neither saved so
turning on Alternate Autotype and Use System Tray were not stored.
-- Johan
Mint 18.1_Cinnamon x64. I <believe> the very 1st PWS version I installed - .98.1 from Mint's repo - added icon to sys tray. </believe>
After installing 1.01B deb - from sourceforge - to same location, tray icon stopped.
Get same message as others in options: "There appears to be no system tray support..."
Mint 18.1_Cinnamon x64. I <believe> the very 1st PWS version I installed - .98.1 from Mint's repo - added icon to sys tray. </believe>
After installing 1.01B deb - from sourceforge - to same location, tray icon stopped.
Discovered the applet "System Tray, which hosts all the system icons" wasn't installed in Sys Settings>Applets. (not sure it ever was, but I didn't manually change it).
When I added System Tray applet to the panel, PWS icon appeared in sys tray.
Before enabling the applet, I saw same message in PWS options: "There appears to be no system tray support...".
Haven't rebooted yet, but now after opening PWS UI & autotyping, it minimizes to a separate button in the "panel" (equiv. of Win taskbar) AND has a working icon in sys. tray (w/ sound, clock icons).
EDIT: Stay on top feature until * after * you autotype doesn't work on all pages. Some Sourceforge forums are an example. Other sites it works.
With pws UI open, I need to click in some sites' login fields, to clear canned text or PWS may leave the text when it autotypes. PWS may minimize to panel and collapse all trees (mentioned in bug) when you click a login field.
Certain other sites, PWS autotype can't find the 1st data field, if you don't click that field just before autotype. PWS may minimize when clicking the 1st input field.
On a few sites, if you don't click the login field before autotype, the data may get typed in wrong fields. It needs to stay on top until autotype actually happens. In pws Windows version (last I remember), it allowed clicking on login fields, then back on pws UI w/o minimizing.
Not sure why the problem exists only on certain pages. Sites aren't dictating when apps minimize?
Ticket [#1443] "System tray disappeared in 1.03BETA" is related to the system tray issue.
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Bugs: #1443