Bug 155529

Summary:	Pidgin not docking in System Tray
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Wolfger <wolfger>
Component:	widget-systemtray	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Wolfger 2008-01-12 16:52:44 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I have Pidgin set to "Show system tray icon: Always". No system tray icon appears, but a blank space is inserted in the System Tray. If I close Pidgin on the desktop, the application quits (should stay alive in System Tray). This works fine in KDE 3.5

Also, Pidgin must be launched twice each time I launch it (first launch crashes), and the graphic for pidgin does not appear in the taskbar.

Steps to reproduce:
Launch Pidgin
Launch Pidgin again
Tools->Preferences->Show system tray icon:->Always
Notice blank space on System Tray
Close Pidgin window on desktop
Notice blank space remains
Check process list: Pidgin not running.

Expected behavior:
Pidgin icon loads in tray. Upon closing pidgin windows, pidgin remains active in tray.

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2008-01-12 18:12:22 UTC

There's no more kdesktop and kicker in KDE 4, only plasma.

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs 2008-01-12 18:34:45 UTC

When running pidgin from konsole, does the crash look anything like those listed in bug #153193?

Comment 3 Wolfger 2008-01-16 03:56:35 UTC

Logged in to KDE4 again today (after package updates), and the problem seems to be almost completely fixed. Pidgin now starts on the first try, and stays available in the tray when I close the desktop window. Only problem is that the tray icon is a plain gray box, rather than the Pidgin icon.

Comment 4 Patrick MacArthur 2008-01-20 20:44:59 UTC

I am running OpenSuSE 10.3 with the latest KDE 4.0.0 packages from the KDE:KDE4 repository and am having the same issue (Pidgin starting and working but the tray icon is a gray box instead of the Pidgin icon), though it doesn't occur with other GTK+ applications.  I am running Pidgin 2.1.1 (the latest officially packaged version of Pidgin for OpenSuSE).

Comment 5 Jonathan Thomas 2008-02-15 16:33:57 UTC

Yeah, it's a grey box now, but I do see a little bit of the green logo in the bottom right corner...

Comment 6 Sebastian Sauer 2008-02-20 00:42:43 UTC

Since the initial report about the crash seems to be fixed with bug #153193 as verified at comment #3, the remaining issue is that the trayicon doesn't got displayed correct and that's a duplicate of bug #155381 - thanks for the feedback :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155381 ***