GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 604579
Systray icon starts of visible when it shouldn't
Last modified: 2012-03-23 16:03:57 UTC
I raised this on AWN's bug tracker: "gnome-power-manager has options to tell it whether to show up in the system tray or not, such as don't show when the battery is fully charged and not being drained. It seems if it is set not to be displayed when AWN (or at least the system tray applet) starts then instead you get a blank space in the system try, as shown in the screenshot (attached). You can get rid of it by telling gnome-power-manager to always display, and then setting it back to whatever hide conditions you want." They replied with the following: "Copied from our forum: > > drc said: > > Using gnome-panels, this does not happen, the icon stays disabled, which leads me to believe this could be fixable in the notification area plugin. > Actually, I think that gnome-panel only hides the issue - on gnome-panel they don't use a grid view like we do, instead, they display all the icons in a row (or column depending on orientation), and therefore the icon is shown only as a 1px wide stripe, which looks as if the icon wasn't there (but I'm sure you will find the 1px stripe if you try to)... > Therefore, I'd say that this is g-p-m's bug." Can someone confirm this is a bug in gpm?
Created attachment 149728 [details] Screenshot
Link to the bug report for AWN: https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn/+bug/496684
GPM is using the standard GtkStatusIcon code, which in turn is using the standard system-tray spec: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/systemtray-spec It's likely the AWN code isn't following the spec, as g-p-m works in gnome, kde and XFCE without problems.
Created attachment 150269 [details] The bug can be shown even in gnome-panel Awn follows the spec, and this attachment shows that the g-p-m icon is really there even though it's set to not display. (can be also easily checked with `xwininfo -tree`)
Can someone remove the "Resolved" state? Or should I open new bug about it?
Have set status to unconfirmed, can a gnome person confirm this please? Michal's screenshot shows the bug in gnome-panel. Perhaps, if GPM is using the standard GtkStatusIcon code, then the bug is actually in GtkStatusIcon?
This is is a duplicate of bug 664019 (or the other way around, actually).
And here is an older one reporting this: bug 591560