GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 304634
Applet makes space for icons but no icon appears. Right clicking does not give icon's menu, gives applet's menu
Last modified: 2005-08-14 10:27:54 UTC
Steps to reproduce: Unable to reproduce, sorry. I had a single icon in the tray, suddenly it went blank. I tried to access the menu by right clicking and nothing happened. The area had retained space for the icon, and the proigram was still active but there was no icon and it could not be clicked for a menu (i tested in case the icon became invisible), it returned the applet's menu, not the app's menu. I also launched a new program. he paplet expanded to make space but the same happened. Stack trace: Other information: Removed applet from panel and readded. Problem was solved.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This bug report isn't very useful because it doesn't describe the bug well. You need to give us precise steps on how to reproduce.
Confirmed here. First note that this only happens for certain programs that add an icon to the notification area. Example: gaim, with the system tray plugin enabled. $ while :; do gaim & sleep 1; killall gaim; done As the gaim icon appears and is killed, the notification area steadily expands by a few pixels of blank space each time. Other programs this works for: liferea, resapplet. Programs it does not work for: gnome-typing-monitor, oddly.
Created attachment 50677 [details] [review] n-area.patch It appears the socket widget is not being destroyed when the plug is removed. I'm not sure why this is, but it works to forcibly destroy the socket widget once it isn't being used anymore. Not sure whether this is the correct approach, but it works.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312687 ***