Bug 413021

Summary:	systemtray doesn't show battery widget
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Component:	System Tray widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, materka, nate, prettyvanilla
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.17.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Sebastian Kügler 2019-10-16 07:30:31 UTC

SUMMARY

For about two releases, the battery widget has vanished from the systemtray. I can add it to the panel separately, and then it does work, but the automatic showing / hiding obviously doesn't.

It's like my systemtray doesn't find the battery. I can also not enable it in systemtray settings, it's not shown there. The Power Management systemsettings module works just fine. Also the power management plasma engine shows hasbattery and other values correct.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. clean plasmashell config
2. restart plasmashell
3. observe no battery widget

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT

battery monitor in systemtray

I'm on Neon dev/unstable, just upgraded to Plasma 5.17

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-10-16 09:35:19 UTC

Is it completely vanished or hidden in the popup?
Is the org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement service registered on the bus? (I assume so, given the KCM works, but who knows)

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-10-16 09:39:05 UTC

> I can also not enable it in systemtray settings

Oh. Umm. Can you check whether the plasmoid desktop file has "X-Plasma-NotificationArea=true" in it? This shoulds very odd.

Comment 3 Sebastian Kügler 2019-10-16 12:11:01 UTC

Yes to both:

* org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement is registered on the session bus
* X-Plasma-NotificationArea=true is in both, metadata.json and metadata.desktop files, and the *Category is "Hardware"

It's completely vanished, i.e. not loaded at all.

Comment 4 Sebastian Kügler 2019-10-16 13:02:29 UTC

I just noticed that also the notification widget is not loaded by the system tray. (Same as with battery, I can add it manually to the panel.)

Comment 5 Konrad Materka 2020-01-16 15:31:51 UTC

Can you check with 5.18-beta? System Tray has new setting window - is Battery monitor available there?

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-02-12 21:52:50 UTC

Are you able to reproduce this in Plasma 5.18?

Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2020-02-27 04:33:10 UTC

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Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2020-03-13 04:33:13 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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