For the past week or so I've been having an issue with the Hangouts system tray icon hiding itself. Normally I have it show all the time so I can easily click it, but it seems no matter what I do, within a day or so it's hiding again. When it hides, I click "Customize" in the system tray and select "Show icon and notifications" for both instances of Hangouts that show up in the list. However, after a day or so it seems to always revert one of them to "Only show notification" as shown in the attached screenshot. Changing it back fixes the problem, but only temporarily.
How can I get Hangouts to always show in the system tray?
EDIT: Looks like it may not be just Hangouts. Just had Battle.net do the same thing.
Best Answer
After extensive playing around with different settings, I was never able to get anything to work. It seems that any application that is updated is automatically relegated to the hidden part of the system tray, regardless of the old settings for the application.
However, Google released a Chrome app for Hangouts (as opposed to the old extension) that removes it from the system tray entirely. Using the app, Hangouts now has a proper Taskbar icon, and behaves more like a native extension. I know it doesn't exactly fix the original issue, but it removed the issue entirely for me.