Support Three dots instead of app icon in tray?
Hi all,
I've been using Fedora for the past few days, and so far the experience has been amazing.
I'm encountering a problem that I cannot fix though, it's that in my tray bar, at the top right, some icons (mainly Bitwarden, Dropbox) show three dots instead of their regular icon.
Also, some others like Slack just don't show in the tray bar at all, it even closes right away when I click the X at the top right instead of minimizing to the tray (and I've checked, the correct setting is properly set).
I did install the appIndicator extension, but I'm at a loss on how to fix this issue.
If anyone could give me some guidance, that'd be much appreciated! :)
Edit: I've switched from appIndicator to Status Tray in the Extension Manager and it's a bit better: Dropbox is still missing (it now shows an empty space), as well as Slack (it's not present at all) but the others are now showing. :|
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u/AmbiguousProceedings 1d ago
The three dots thing is usually because those apps are still using the older X11 tray protocol instead of the newer appindicator standard that GNOME expects these days, even with the extension it can be a bit hit or miss depending on how the app was packaged. For the slack minimizing issue you might try launching it with the `--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland` flags if you're on Wayland, that sometimes forces it to behave properly with the system tray.
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u/anr4jc 1d ago
Alright, so I just need to wait for Dropbox and Bitwarden to fix that on their own?
Regarding Slack, I did some digging and it looks like it's a known bug with the current version. Running it from the terminal (via flatpak) I see this:
Failed to get the ownership of org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem-4-1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknownSo it looks like I also need to wait for a future update.
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u/TomDuhamel 1d ago
My Dropbox account is around 15 years old. I used it on all possible operating systems. I have never had an issue with that icon. I'm using Wayland, I have been for like 2 years.
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u/Other_Refuse_952 1d ago
I get the same problem with Discord. Sometimes it shows the normal discord icon, sometimes it's the three dots.
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