Application doesn't close to icon (no tray icon)

[JackJeisly]

Steps to reproduce

1. Where are you starting? What can you see?
   I start a Element Nightly and doesn't see icon in tray.

Doesn't work option "Show tray icon and minimise window to it on close". In "Preferences" this option are enabled. If I close window application just close.

Outcome

What did you expect?

I expect that window will be closed to tray icon

What happened instead?

when I close window application just close.

Operating system

Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS

Application version

Версия Element Nightly: 2022121401 Версия Olm: 3.2.12

How did you install the app?

From repo "https://packages.element.io/debian/ default main"

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

Yes

[G2G2G2G]

Yep happens to me in nightly as well on arch, something broke system tray icon in last few updates

it does stay running in the background fine, the icon just doesn't show up regardless

[t3chguy]

The upstream tray icon implementation changed, no longer using libappindicator.
electron/electron#36472

Looks related to electron/electron#36602

Depends on your DE and whether it seems to support StatusIconLinuxDbus

[G2G2G2G]

It doesn't even work on OpenSUSE KDE tumbleweed that I see.. (I use a WM on my main machine)
I assume what works is gnome, looks like other guy has XFCE working which is GTK too so maybe that's it.

looking at this comment electron/electron#36471
"we believe we've done a better job this time but I don't want to send this to an existing stable line"
lol, yea definitely just needs a fallback to the libappindicator

I only see mention of "StatusIconLinuxDbus" on chromium, and election nothing else.. there's a GTK.h file in some mailing list but it's part of electron too
Is it called something else? I'd add it to my WM

[JackJeisly]

yea definitely just needs a fallback to the libappindicator
If it isn't work in popular distrs - needs a fallback to the libappindicator. And ideally fallback from electrone and chromium to C or C++. :)

[AffSeda]

Same issue on Debian testing/MATE. I assume this "StatusIconLinuxDbus" isn't just some package I can install ?

[G2G2G2G]

@AffSeda no, from what I see the "libappindicator" was the easy one that you could "just install" and it'd make everything work magically.

The new one they do now is something to do with this https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-indicator (which is linked to on the rocket chat github below)

This was supposed to be fixed when electron 22 is used, but I think it is already used and still didn't get fixed
Rocket chat and several other programs have the same issue, it's all cuz of electron stuff.
see here: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron#2536 (comment)

Sooo unless my element user agent is wrong, we are on version 22 of electron and it still doesn't work, so no idea... unfortunately we can't just install something though

Botspot/pi-apps#1930 version 22 got added to the list lmao, looks like they broke a lot of stuff on a lot of different things