Bug 156303

I also have a similar problem (KDE4 on openSUSE 10.3).

After loggin out and loggin in again, the icons in system tray do no appear anymore.

I have to remove the system tray, and re-add it, and then it works until I log out and in.

Exactly that is the problem i am facing. Is there any way to add system tray to panel. I can only do it as a widget. 

Cannot reproduce with current KDE 4.0 branch, so this temporary regression will be likely gone with the next package update.

> Is there any way to add system tray to panel. 
> I can only do it as a widget. 

there is no difference, actually, between desktop and panel widgets. they are identical. anyways, to answer your question, right now you can drag from the add widgets dialog directly to the panel.

Thanks of the help. Now i know how to add widgets to panel. I tried deleting files from .kde4 at home directory. Everything worked fine for the time being. But after i logg off system tray disappears. tray is still there but no icons. When i remove  and re add it will work  for the time being.


How come it's status change to resolved? 

Confirm this bug for OpenSUSE 10.3 RPMs builded 20-Jan-2008

yes. 

can anyone NOT using suse rpms reproduce this?
I'm beginning to think it's a distro problem.

so what shall i do. Its unbearable to use kde 4 some times it just freezes and i will have to kill X and start again. SUSE is testing the limits of my patience.

> ------- Additional Comments From jithin1987 gmail com  2008-01-23 13:21
> ------- so what shall i do.


report the bug to suse.

Chani, and you think there someone will get another answer than in comment #3? :-)

stephen: oh, I didn't realise you're a suse person. :) shall we close this again then?

I must correct myself, I see this with vanilla KDE 4.0 branch but only at second+ login - at very first login systray icons are visible.

the new xembed'ing code seems very brittle in several ways. i'm often getting icons from kde3 apps not getting swallowed on app launch, for instance =/

Confirmed the same thing after last update yesterday

I have a similar problem:

I have installed KDE 4.0.0 from official opensuse repository, at the first login on my KDE4 desktop enviroment the system tray there is and works fine,
I logout from KDE4 and relogin on my KDE4 and the system tray in my application bar disapear!!

I can view my System tray by add system tray objet to desktop with plasma, but i can't insert the system tray in original positions or rather beside the clock in application bar.

If i delete my .kde4 folder in my Home directory at the next login the system tray return to origina posistion or rather beside the clock, but at the next login without clearing .kde4 the problem returns. 

can someone attach the contents of $KDEHOME/share/config/plasma-appletsrc when this happens?

> I can view my System tray by add system tray objet to desktop with plasma,
> but i can't insert the system tray in original positions or rather beside
> the clock in application bar.


sure you can. :) you need to drag it from the 'add widgets' dialog directly to 
the place you want it on the panel.

Created attachment 23297 [details]
plasma-appletsrc without systray

plasma-appletrc with "hided" systray

Created attachment 23299 [details]
plasma-appletsrc after deleting .kde4 and login again. Systray present

two things that might help to track it down i think would be:
-make sure there is only one systray, two systrays is bad bad bad
-when the systray shows no ions, do you see some systray icon that floats around as a toplevel window?

- There is only one systray for me;
- If systray widget is not placed on panel, but placed on desktop - all icons visible;

I made a diff of the config-file while plasma was still running (not showing any icons in the systray) and after I quit it via kquitapp. As one can see the position seems to be sensible, yet the width it too small. Hence, either the applet does not get any icons to display and thus does not expand or it does get the icons but does not expand nevertheless.

Since I do not have a debug-enabled brnach checkout, I cannot provide any debug output when adding a new systray-icon.

For trunk this works. If I quit kde with amarok and klipper in the systray, none of them are shown when logging back in, until amarok started up. After that klipper et al get added too and show up.

--- pla_running	2008-01-28 14:16:42.000000000 +0100
+++ pla_quit	2008-01-28 14:17:02.000000000 +0100
 -61,7 +61,7 @@
 plugin=lockout
 
 [Containments][2][Applets][18]
-geometry=924,8,160,40
+geometry=1076,8,8,40
 locked=false
 plugin=systemtray
 
 -104,7 +104,7 @@
 showDesktopNumber=true
 
 [Containments][2][Applets][8]
-geometry=438,8,482,40
+geometry=438,8,634,40
 locked=false
 plugin=tasks

I'm also seeing this. There have been several opensuse kde4 builds since the bug appeared, and none fixed this.

This seems to be caused by setting a panel height of 40 pixels. I have reverted that for now in the SUSE packages until the Plasma layout system gets fixed.

> ------- Additional Comments From binner kde org  2008-01-29 20:23 -------
> This seems to be caused by setting a panel height of 40 pixels. I have
> reverted that for now in the SUSE packages until the Plasma layout system
> gets fixed.


The summary of this report should be renamed to something describing the 
problem. "Systemtray applet is broken for heights <48" or something like 
that.

This should be fixed now with r769483 in trunk.

Would be cool if somebody could test if it really works and doesn't introduce regressions. Thanks in advance :)

Works for me. After your patches from yesterday, the systray disappeared with other sizes. Now, after having just updated (and pulled in your recent fix), the systray stays in the panel at all sizes.

Works for me too, please backport and CLOSE this bug. :-)

Backported with r769499 && report marked as fixed.
Thanks for the feedback!

I filled the https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384300 bugreport and they asked to fill in a bug report on KDE.
Version are reported on Novell bugzilla site.

my package versions: 
OpenSuSE 10.3 (x64)
libqt4-4.3.95+20080424-2.1
kdebase4-4.0.71-3.7
and requirements

Problems are probably regarded to an unclean environment (?) as I have since about
two weeks also with the STABLE versions of kde4 repositories, but I don't know
how to clean it.
All the problems seems to be regarded to PLASMA workplace:

ICONS:
every time I connect to desktop, the desktop is filled with many copies of the
same icons, every icon have many copies of itself

SystemTray:
I have the system tray activated but I can't see any icon in it. And if I
remove the applet (right click "remove system tray") plasma crashes with sigv.

Digital clock:
Today I made the upgrade (zypper up -t package -y) and now in my desktop also
the digital clock applet doesn't show anything

today system tray icons reappeared and also did digital clock two days ago.
OpenSuse package versions:
kdebase4-workspace-4.0.72-3.4
The problem of multiple icons on the desktop is still alive.

System tray problem is exactly reproducible for KDE 4.1.0 (x86_64).

Which Qt version do you use?

Qt 4.4.1

I have seen some people having this with kde 4.0 and 4.1 + qt 4.4.1 on openSUSE 11. Don't know if it's a packaging or qt problem, but it really seems to be happening.

See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168007

Ok, thank you for the link. So it must be not KDE bug...