[gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Grant]

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?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 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 ?

- Grant
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 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.



> - Grant
>>
>>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Grant]

>>> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Mark Knecht]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Grant]

>>>>> 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

Thanks Mark.  I really think this is a different issue.  I emerged
tango-icon-theme with no change.  I have all icons except those that
should be in the system tray, and even those missing system tray icons
do appear in the xfce4 menu.  There are no blank placeholders or
anything like that.  They just don't show up in the system tray at
all.

I did notice this from Twinkle:

X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3

I researched it on Google but got nowhere.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Thanks Mark.  I really think this is a different issue.  I emerged
> tango-icon-theme with no change.  I have all icons except those that
> should be in the system tray, and even those missing system tray icons
> do appear in the xfce4 menu.  There are no blank placeholders or
> anything like that.  They just don't show up in the system tray at
> all.
>
> I did notice this from Twinkle:
>
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>
> I researched it on Google but got nowhere.
>
> - Grant

Yeah, it's different unfortunately.

I'm curious as to whether you see this with a new user account on the
failing machine? Possibly it's something left over in the .config/xfce
directory saved from earlier days that's causing you problems? New
user, new directory, simple test.

- Mark