[BUG] No system tray indicator after last system upgrade

[lunelovehearn]

Version of Variety

Describe the bug

for some reason, and no matter how many times I reinstall variety, it still doesn't show the system tray icon. the app works normally, but missing that.

Context

it was working fine until last system update.

To Reproduce

1. upgrade arch linux with plasma 6.1
2. variety loads at boot
3. no tray indicator, even after a reinstall.

Attach Variety's log file

attached log
log.txt

Desktop environment and version

KDE plasma 6.1.2
qt version: 6.7.2
kde frameworks version: 6.3.0
running under wayland

OS name and version

Arch Linux
kernel 6.9.7-zen
Screenshots

not applicable, as the system tray icon is gone.

Attached files

Additional context

[dannn-o]

I have encountered what I believe is the same problem, but after upgrading Linux Mint 20 to 21.3. Without the system tray icon (and "About" information), I used Synaptic Package Manager to confirm version 0.8.5-2 of Variety is installed, and the version of Cinnamon is 6.0.4 (GTK shows 3.24.33 in System Reports). Of course, missing the system tray icon prevents using the mouse controls to move back/forward in the desktop image, etc. Variety otherwise appears to function normally.

[dannn-o]

Update: Just upgraded to the latest version (0.8.12git202401202237.8f6264appa978~ubuntu22.04.1) by using the PPA, but that didn't seem to change anything. Uploading my log file in case it helps. Wondering if the root cause involves AyatanaAppIndicator3 somehow. Thought I don't understand it fully, there was a lot of discussion in the Blog over at Mint regarding Gnome support generally, and things like GTK, Adwaita and libAdwaita, etc.
variety.log

[dannn-o]

Another update: After posting the above update about 5 minutes ago, the system tray icon just 'magically' appeared. (??!!??) To quote Johnny Bravo: Things just keep getting weirder and weirder....

Guess I'll continue to monitor and see if I can provide anything further that might help.

[lunelovehearn]

the issue still happens after updating. it used to work fine between august - september but again the system tray icon is gone.

[leslieadams57]

I have also encountered the same problem on my Raspberry Pi 5 system. Details are:-

Variety: 0.8.10
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) aarch64
Host: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
Kernel: 6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712

I have attached a copy of the log file (verbose) which also shows some errors as follows:-

_ERROR: 2024-10-07 10:09:35,279: server_options_thread() 'Could not fetch Variety server side options'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/init.py", line 525, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 372, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 402, in raw_decode
return self.scan_once(s, idx=w(s, idx).end())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Will keep looking/reinstalling etc. foe any other info.
Variety_log.pdf

[doobes]

I just installed on EoS v8.0 (Ubuntu 24.02 LTS) and have no system tray icon.

Edit: I've learned that EoS v8.0 has no facility for displaying system tray indicators.

Consider my comment closed.

[Spaceboy60]

Using Debain 12 testing with Budgie Desktop 10.8.2 i have no system tray icon either

[lunelovehearn]

this bug still happens so far.