Missing Tray menu on Ubuntu #8043

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   jonasschnelli commented at 8:00 pm on May 11, 2016: contributor

   I have tested the official gitian build from 0.12.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 as well as self-compiled on 15.04 and came to the same error-behavior: Clicking on the tray icon reveals no or an empty menu.

   Could be an Qt upstream bug.

2. jonasschnelli added the label GUI on May 11, 2016
3. MarcoFalke added the label Linux/Unix on May 12, 2016
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   MarcoFalke commented at 10:31 am on May 12, 2016: member

   Works fine on fedora both with self-compiled and gitian releases.
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   MarcoFalke commented at 3:08 pm on September 20, 2016: member

   Relevant comment: #7497 (comment)
6. MarcoFalke added the label Upstream on Sep 20, 2016
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   laanwj commented at 3:31 pm on September 20, 2016: member

   I don’t have a tray icon either on Ubuntu 16.04.

   It looks like tray icons for individual applications are dying out. On windows 10 they are grouped together in a popup menu in the task bar. On MacOSX I’m fairly sure we already disable the tray as it is simply the docker icon.

   Ubuntu prefers showing a few hardcoded groups like ’network’, ’language’, ‘messages’, ‘sound’, and so on. It should show them for ’legacy’ applications though but support is clearly flaky. I don’t see it as a very serious issue, the Bitcoin Core icon was an odd duck out anyhow with its brightly colored icon.

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   pbakiewicz commented at 9:17 am on January 8, 2018: none

   Looks like a problem with initial rendering the tray. You can solve this issue by first hiding it (Options/Window/Hide tray) and then showing it again. From now on the tray should render properly.
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   MarcoFalke commented at 9:52 pm on June 25, 2018: member

   I believe this can be closed, since it should work on Ubuntu 17.10 and later.

   Yes, having this bug on xenial is an annoyance, but pretty much an upstream bug, so I doubt we could do anything here.

10. MarcoFalke closed this on Aug 6, 2019

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