Some applications icons disappear from tray randomly
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the disappearing tray icons on Cinnamon 4.8.6 under Arch Linux and inspect the tray and D-Bus behavior around the failure. Done means identifying a reproducible cause and verifying that affected application icons remain visible without restarting Cinnamon.
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Description
* Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version)
4.8.6 from Arch repository.
* Distribution - Arch Linux
* Graphics hardware *and* driver used: GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, 465.27
* 64 bit
* Attach ~/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/syslog
There is no ~/.xsession-errors file existing in my home dir (or /var/log/syslog for that matter).
Issue
Sometimes at random moments some apps icons disappear from tray and I have to restart Cinnamon for the icons to return to tray.
Steps to reproduce
There's no specific order of steps to reproduce, since as I said - it happens randomly. It could happen at launching a program, or it could happen in an hour after launching it.
Expected behaviour
Tray icons should never disappear.
Other information
I've reported this issue to Telegram as well but a friend of mine said I should report this to Cinnamon. In his opinion, if restarting Cinnamon fixes the problem, it's a Cinnamon problem and should be reported here.
Lately this happens mostly with Telegram Desktop icon but I've seen it happen also with Transmission tray icon (when I used to use Transmission). Unfortunately in both cases there were no error logs or syslogs - that's why I haven't reported it earlier. However, the only error I could find was a few minutes ago in telegram's log and judging by its content, it's the only related thing that makes any sense regarding the issue:
[2021.05.03 16:30:01] Native Notification Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.Notifications” on object at path /org/freedesktop/Notifications
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