I'm trying to figure what's the right way for me to be notified when some systemd service is having problems. Manually checking systemctl status isn't a sustainable option; at the very least I want to have a simple tray icon, like just green or red. Some sounds and/or visual notifications can be useful too. Surprisingly I don't seem to find any existing tools for that, so the best I can think of is to write my own, maybe some simple bash script which would poll systemctl once in a while, and update the icon status. Pretty poor but alas. Before I actually start spending time on that, want to make sure, am I by any chance missing some better options?

I use Birdtray to minimize my Thunderbird to the system tray as I often receive and send emails. For the past few days, Birdtray has been behaving weirdly on my Fedora 40 KDE. Whenever I click on the tray icon of Birdtray, a dialog box with an error pops up. It did start the Thunderbird instance but clicking on the tray icon does not minimize the Thunderbird instance. Here is the screenshot of the dialog box. I am facing the same issue with the RPM version. Here is the other screenshot. However, if I use this command /usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host /usr/bin/thunderbird to run Thunderbird from the terminal, Thunderbird starts without any issues. This is true for both versions. Here is the log output for Birdtray when it attempts to start Thunderbird.

2024-07-05 17:54:19 Birdtray version 1.11.4 started 
2024-07-05 17:54:19 Triggering the unread counter update 
2024-07-05 17:54:19 Window ID found: 0 
2024-07-05 17:54:19 Starting Thunderbird as '/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host /usr/bin/thunderbird' 
2024-07-05 17:54:20 Window ID found: 0 
2024-07-05 17:54:21 Window ID found: 0 
2024-07-05 17:54:22 Window ID found: 0 
2024-07-05 17:54:23 Window ID found: 0

Can anyone help me fix this issue? Any help would be appreciated.

After upgrading Debian11/KDE to Debian 12, Solaar (for Bluetooth input devices) and onboard (for a virtual touchscreen keyboard) is showing twice in the tray-bar. I checked with the process manager and there only is one process for each of those. **Why are they showing twice, and how to prevent that?** No other are shown twice there. The context menu can be shown for both tray icons of Solaar. The second tray-icon for onboard looks slightly different from the other. When I click on the latter only a context menu is shown, when I click on the first the onboard keyboard is shown so these are definitely different. It may have to do with Plasma tray icon settings files (which should not be screwed up by updating). The four icons look like this in the tray: The second Solaar icon is on the most right of icons in the traybar, right of the network-manager icon. If I quit either application and restart it, only one icon is shown. I used X11 before and after the upgrade. When I switch to Wayland, the Onboard keyboard does show after login but, unlike with X11, it does not show in the tray (Solaar is in the tray with one icon) once I close that keyboard. **Update**: The issue still exists. All packages are up-to-date (Plasma 5.27.5). I made sure there is only one entry for each in /etc/xdg/autostart (make sure the one that remains has "KDE" in OnlyShowIn) and no extra entry in ~/.config/autostart. Both only show once in the processes (underneath branch systemd->systemd). It is strange that on another computer with Deb12/KDE, there is no icon for Solaar (also underneath systemd->systemd) even though it is running with one entry for it in /etc/xdg/autostart where both have Exec=solaar --window=hide and StartupNotify=true. When disconnecting the bluetooth receiver no icon is shown anymore and when reconnecting two icons are shown again. **At another nearly identical Deb12 machine no icon for Solaar is in the tray bar** (Plasma System Tray) except for a short time after connecting the receiver. Maybe there is another way to get info about things showing up in the traybar. A solution to this problem could also be useful for the disappearing tray icon for veracrypt where its GUI can't be opened again due to error "VeraCrypt is already running".

On i3 I start qstardict at the session opening with the following line on the i3config :

exec  --no-startup-id qstardict

So, Qstartdict open its window at each session starting witch is messy. Unfortunately, Qstardict haven’t a built-in option for opening itself in systray. #### The question Then, is their any solution to force an app to start in systray? I read somewhere that this kind of function is highly wm-related. So if needed, my wm is i3wm.

This is a variant of [this question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/529822/kde-how-to-get-rid-of-ibus-keyboard-selector) . But the provided answers either don't seem to work or would entail not being able to have Zoom (cf below). Situation: - I run Kubuntu 21.04 with KDE Plasma 5.21.4 - Zoom requires IBus. I have Zoom and I need it. - IBus has by default an icon on the system tray in addition to the default keyboard selector How can I get rid of the IBus keyboard selector (the ugly leftmost one) in the system tray ? What I have tried: - Uninstalling IBus means uninstalling Zoom ; not an option - Start-up script to kill IBus (`ibus exit`) => no sys tray icon but keyboard doesn't work in certain apps - Uncheck "Show icon in sys tray" in IBus Preferences => IBus still appears in system tray even after reboot even though box remains unchecked - Do the same with `dconf` from the command line => IBus still ignores the config option - Start-up script to restart IBus without panel (`ibus-daemon -rd --panel=disable) => no sys tray icon and IBus is running (ibus-daemon` says something about an existing instance) but the dead keys of my French keyboard ("circumflex + e" displays "e" instead of "ê") don't work anymore. - Tried to hide the IBus sys tray icon in the System Tray Configuration Menu but the drop-down for display options is grayed out:

How can I increase the size of these System Tray Icons? : **Update:** In Debian 11, KDE Plasma 5.20.5, there is now an option to scale system-tray icons to the panel's height. Here's is a short video showing that. Thanks goes to KDE!

On Linux Mint 18.3 (x64) MATE, I had the standard volume and networking tray icons. After upgrading in-place to Linux Mint 19, it apparently decided XFCE is what I wanted (but I can choose between the two on the login screen.) However, no matter what I choose, there are no volume and networking icons in the tray. As you can see, I've tried enabling everything indicator-, volume-, and network-related: ...but after a full reboot there's still nothing in the tray except the clock and the "show desktop" icon. This is true whether I log into MATE or XFCE. Update: In Xfce, I found this dialog in the Panel settings, and upon enabling the notification area frame, I discovered that in fact, the volume control is there, but invisible (you can see the control popup in this screenshot, just after I've clicked the blank area beside the update icon): (And yes, now I've done every available update and rebooted again, and still have the same result.) *Update 2:* I've confirmed that the invisible volume control icon is mate-volume-control-applet, the one at the bottom of the list in the first screenshot. Maybe I shouldn't have it enabled since it's MATE under Xfce, but as I said, there was no volume icon out of the box. Meanwhile, the network icon seems to be nm-applet, which was running. I killed it and tried restarting it from the command line, and got this: ~ $ nm-applet & 3982 ~ $ (nm-applet:3982): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:39:43.816: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent How can I get the network icon back, and make the volume icon visible again? **Update**: On a cold boot, after removing some items from the startup list (including the volume and update services), I now see only a blank/invisible icon which turns out to be nm-applet (I can right-click the blank space and see WiFi hotspots.) Can I only have one or the other? And why are they invisible?

This one is tricky as I have heavily customized my setup, but it has been bothering me a lot so I decided to ask a question. Recently, ibus stopped appearing on the system tray. While my system tray is not the typical one people use, it does comply to the freedesktop's StatusNotifierItem specification. I don't think a program as famous as ibus would have status notifier not compliant to the standard. Do you have any clue what is happening? Which system diagnostics could I dig up to pinpoint the problem? Any direction (excluding "use another system tray") would be appreciated! EDIT: The option "Show icon on system tray" is definitely turned on.

How can one minimize Thunderbird to the tray bar in Debian 10/KDE? Using bintray didn't work when trying to install it (sudo apt-get install birdtray) I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 birdtray : Depends: thunderbird but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'm looking for other ways to get this done than using the Minimize On Close AddOn for Thunderbird because it requires the permission for "Have full, unrestricted access to Thunderbird, and your computer" and there might be other ways. Various other AddOns don't run with the Thunderbird version that currently is in Debian's repos (78.11.0). If there currently is no way to get this done, I'm also interested if there are any plans (issues) to build this functionality into Thunderbird so that it can be minimized to tray just like countless other apps that run on GNU/Linux.

I am using Xfce desktop on Ubuntu 18.04-based system. I can easily switch *connected* audio output devices between them (including bluetooth ones) with a Xfce panel plugin , but when bluetooth speakers are not already connected I use blueberry and blueberry-tray to access and connect bluetooth devices. I am using various bluetooth speakers with different computers and often the speakers are not connected automatically in Linux. Using blueberry-tray is a bit cumbersome as it involves no less than 3 clicks and two opened windows. blueberry-tray is a tray icon to start the blueberry GUI, not really a tray tool - one that should provide all needed operations by itself without starting a separate GUI, with multiple windows, etc. I wonder if there is a tray tool similar to Sound Switcher Indicator or the aforementioned Xfce panel plugin, only not for switching connected devices, but for connecting/disconnecting available (already 'added'--associated) devices, notably bluetooth ones. I mean something like the panel tool they have on a Mac, where you can click the icon, see all added devices - including non-connected ones -, and press 'connect' without opening any window.

Apps don't display applets in the system tray, as they do on Ubuntu. I am using gnome with Arch Linux. Apps such as telegram, OBS, VLC, etc should show a small applet in the top bar, to easily access the apps. How do I make them appear again?

Even though I like using Gnome, this issues drives me crazy and even makes me consider switching to KDE. I think the tray icons are quite useful for some application, and for others they are even essential. Since they are always visible, some of them are pretty distracting or at least annoying. So I need a way to make them less distracting. I'm using the *Papirus* theme, which already takes care of blending in some the tray icons. But I'd like to make all of them flat white icons. Reading the ArchWiki (I'm using Manjaro Gnome), forum posts and stackoverflow answers didn't get me to a solution. Apparently, it should be possible to change the icons by putting icon files in the ~/.local/share/icons/. Doing this in the home directory, so the won't reverse when updating the appication or theme. Therefore I created my versions of the icons and put them in

~/.local/share/icons/Papirus/16x16/apps/
~/.local/share/icons/Papirus/16x16/panel/

I did the same for 24x24, ... , 256x256. I also tried running gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.local/share/icons/Papirus or refreshing Gnome (with Alt+F2 and r), or switch the theme in Gnome Tweaks. In many cases this didn't change anything, in others at least the icon in dash bar. But never the tray system icons. When I search in the /usr/share/icons/ folder for application names, there are *.png, *.svg, *.xpm, *.xpm.svg etc. files, in folders named panel or apps. And then for some applications there are even icons in /usr/share/pixmaps. **What is the proper way to change use custom icons?** More specific: * Which files/resolutions are for the tray icons? * What is the order they are loaded? * How to refresh to see the changes? *PS: I tried changing the tray icons for e.g. Veracrypt and Liferea on Manjaro Gnome* **Update** - There are already flat white icons for Veracrypt in the Papirus theme (/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/panel), that also seem to be ignored. - And there is another Veracrypt icon in /usr/share/app-info/icons/archlinux-arch-community/64x64

I have Red Hat based system with Xfce DE and installed Skype last version from official site. When I running it (only once, with one user account) in system tray I seeing doubled Skype icon, and not only Skype as you can see on the screenshot. **How to get rid of the icon's duplicate?** --- ### My systems: - RHEL 7.5 - Centos 7.5 - Xfce 4.12 - Skype 8.28 - Telegram desktop 1.3 Latest software for today..

With KDE, I sometime need to close/kill KDE (plasmashell) to have more available system resources, while doing so I run lxpanel on its own to have a minimal panel while KDE Plasma is closed. This does work flawlessly but the system tray. On the LXDE panel (lxpanel) I have added the system tray applet and did get the tray to work only when I launch application with the following commands:

# is currently KDE even if plasmashell is closed
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=LXDE
dbus-launch app_using_tray

Is there a way to have the currently running tray applications displayed on lxpanel? or is there any alternative that would permit to access to those application while plasmashell is closed? How to display the KDE system tray icons when plasmashell is replaced temporarily with LXDE panel?

I have several applications in my system tray which are not the default monitoring gadgets of Icewm. For example, below you can see, from left to right, \ **pnmixer**, **nm-applet**, a keyboard leds indicator **trayleds.py**, a brightness indicator **traybr.py**, the battery level indicator and the network monitoring widget (the last two are Icewm builtins). The order of the first four, non-builtin is apparently randomly defined at startup. How may I fix the order for them (say, , , \ and )? man icewm-winoptions mentions > **order**: NUMBER (default: 0) > > The sorting order of task buttons and tray icons. The default value is zero. Increasing positive values go farther right, > while decreasing negative values > go farther left. The order option applies to the task pane, the tray pane and the system tray. but how can I find out the appropriate names to add to ~/.icewm/winoptions?

I need this for i3 to get myself the system tray icons. Wouldn't it make sense to have my only laptop display as the primary one instead of none? Is the standard approach to fixing this just running xrandr --output --primary from the ~/.xprofile?

I use Manjaro (arch) and Thunderbird 60.4.0. Are there any add-ons or apps to show Thunderbird in tray (and unread message count)?

Hello there im trying to make my onboard hide/show with a keyboard shortcut (i know ironic, please don't ask why) however i couldn't find a way to do it in their manual, it only shows programs that are windowed programs that can go to tray however onboard is completely tray program it doesn't have a window name, is it possible to work around that with wmctrl? Im using linux mint with cinnamon btw if that changes anything.

I would like to see the "new messages" count number on my taskbar, like Google Mail, for example something like: Inbox(2) - Mozilla Thunderbird I found FireTray, but it doesn't quite work, the taskbar remains unchanged even when I have new messages: Is it possible to have count number like GMail? I am using Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, Xenial with KDE and Thunderbird version 52.6.0.

My KDE system tray icons is quite standard (time, network connection, sound, etc). Usually, clicking on one of those icons makes a pop-up appears, and allows e.g. to select the media to mount, to change the volume, etc. Something like this: However, sometimes (I'm not sure what triggers it), clicking on an icon does not have any effect (beside adding a blue bar on top of it): I feel like this happen particularly when I'm transferring large files, and the "on going task" icon is active for a long time, but could be wrong. $ plasmashell --version plasmashell 5.8.6 $ kf5-config --version Qt: 5.7.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.28.0 kf5-config: 1.0