Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden.  The
>>>> wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a
>>>> terminal without error.  I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting.
>>>> The twinkle icon shows up in the center of the screen instead of the
>>>> tray, and it has its own panel button which is separate from the main
>>>> app's panel button.  Does anyone know what could be wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I didn't understand very well what happen with you, possible because my
>>> bad english vocabulary, but have you tried run wicd-client with  --no-tray
>>> parameter ?
>>>
>> Another guess, when I upgraded to xfce 4.6 it was necessarily emerge
>> x11-themes/tango-icon-theme and set xfce to use it. This package fixed every
>> icon problemthat I had in xfce menu.
>
> I'm sorry, I just saw your post now for some reason.  I don't think
> the problem is with tango-icon-theme because I have 2 identical
> laptops with very similar configurations and neither of them have that
> package installed.  Only 1 of the laptops is having this problem.
>
> The problem is with system tray icons that are not panel plugins.  For
> example: wicd, twinkle, blueman, orage.  The icons for those do not
> appear at all except for the twinkle icon which appears right in the
> center of the screen.  All other icons work fine, and system tray
> icons that are panel plugins such as xfce4-mixer and clipman work
> fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> - Grant
>
>

Please feel to contribute data and ideas here if appropriate:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307685

It doesn't sound exactly like what I've seen but it's very similar.

- Mark