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Bug 325328 - No icons in Notification area
No icons in Notification area
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115704
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: notification area
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-12-30 21:15 UTC by Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
Modified: 2006-08-09 14:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12

Attachments
Example of described behaviour (17.41 KB, image/jpeg)
2005-12-30 21:21 UTC, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner 		Details

Description Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner 2005-12-30 21:15:41 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Applications that usually have icons in the Notification area (e.g. Gaim, aMule)
have their tray icons appear in small windows on the desktop instead of the
Notification area. Originally seemed to be related to the specific theme being
used, but as it turns out, it happens with several, if not all themes.

Steps to reproduce:
Start an application that has a tray icon.


Actual results:
Specific behaviour is described above.

Expected results:
The icon should be in the tray and not on the desktop.

Does this happen every time?
Generally. Sometimes the tray behaves correctly, but the cases are rare (1 in 20
maybe).

Other information:
This happens under a source-built 2.12.2 version on top of FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE,
the GNOME port has not been upgraded since the install.
The same version (2.12.2) under 5.4-STABLE didn't exhibit this behaviour; this
was also source-built, but upgraded from 2.10.
Comment 1 Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner 2005-12-30 21:21:58 UTC 
Created attachment 56563 [details]
Example of described behaviour
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2005-12-31 12:43:44 UTC 
Are other people using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE seeing this? It used to happen before, but I thought it was fixed...
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2006-01-16 18:46:49 UTC 
Marking as NEEDINFO until we get an answer.
Comment 4 Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner 2006-01-25 16:09:03 UTC 
I am starting to believe that this is somhow related to multihead systems.
I ran across this trying to solve an incompatibility with something totally unrelated (Adobe Reader).
I am not sure, but this seemed to fix the issue:
(Copy libXinerama.so.1 somewhere safe beforhand)
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.s0.1
ln -s /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2006-01-25 17:55:39 UTC 
Ok, so, it seems the notification area is broken on multihead setup. I don't have such a setup... Help to debug is welcome.
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2006-08-09 00:22:43 UTC 
Christian: are you using multihead without Xinerama or with Xinerama? If it's without Xinerama, then it's a duplicate of bug 115704.
Comment 7 Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner 2006-08-09 14:02:14 UTC 
Actually, without Xinerama.
Just checked out bug 115704 and it seems to be the same thing. I thought this was only FreeBSD-related, but it seems to happen in Linux also.
I guess we can close this one and focus on 115704 instead?

(In reply to comment #6)
> Christian: are you using multihead without Xinerama or with Xinerama? If it's
> without Xinerama, then it's a duplicate of bug 115704.
> 

115704
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2006-08-09 14:19:42 UTC 
If you have the possibility to test the patch in bug 115704, please do so!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115704 ***