System Tray – Tray Icons Disappear Sometimes in Ubuntu 17.10
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I upgraded system from 17.04 to 17.10. Sometimes after login to Gnome3 I dont see tray icons. And it looks like this:
Only standard Gnome applets are visible. After logout and login again it back to normal, like this:
Best Answer
Problem was in old Unity indicator-application. Because I used Unity earlier in 17.04 and upgraded to 17.10 this indicator wasn't removed. I still have Unity available. After disabling indicator-application from autostart now legacy tray icons works fine. To disable autostart of this indicator remove /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop file from system. Now it works with standard Ubuntu Appindicators Gnome extension.
This extension/work around could be of some help if you have to get rid of the drop down menus which are default in gnome 3.8+ gnome-shell-remove-dropdown-arrows
Best Answer
Problem was in old Unity
indicator-application
. Because I used Unity earlier in 17.04 and upgraded to 17.10 this indicator wasn't removed. I still have Unity available. After disablingindicator-application
from autostart now legacy tray icons works fine. To disable autostart of this indicator remove/etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop
file from system. Now it works with standardUbuntu Appindicators
Gnome extension.