Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) OS: Linux After setting the system tray to have "klipper" hidden, every ~30 seconds to a minute, the klipper icon will appear in the system tray for about half a second. Going into the tray settings and setting the visibility of it to visible and then back to hidden seems to stop it from happening until the next reboot. Reproducible: Always
this is likely because klipper is setting an urgency status on its icon. if anything, it's a klipper bug, particularly as it isn't happening to other items in your tray?
When I go into the system tray settings, into the entries tab, the icon for clipper looks like paper with a clipboard. This is the icon I am seeing briefly appear, instead of the scissors icon. I don't know why klipper is given a different icon in there, but I assume that this is actually klipper doing that? I can't actually click on it because it goes away too fast. "if anything, it's a klipper bug, particularly as it isn't happening to other items in your tray?" So far I have only seen the paper w/ clipboard icon appear, no other icons. "this is likely because klipper is setting an urgency status on its icon." Are icons supposed to momentarily appear if their status changes even when they are set to hidden?
I finally grabbed a screenshot of it and it isn't klipper. I thought it was because the icon was similar and I never got a good look at it. I don't see any program in the menus that matches its icon.
Created attachment 60492 [details] icon that is spamming system tray every 3 minutes.
not sure what app that is either, but it's not something in plasma.
The icon that is momentarily appearing in the system tray not showing up in the system tray settings/ entries is still a bug though. There is no way to tell system tray to set it to hidden if it doesn't even show up.
please do not re-open bug reports. comment on them, supply new information and the developer(s) responsible for actually working on the issue can decide from there. otherwise it becomes an unhelpful tug-of-war on the status. :) that said: if an application is coming and going and showing an icon every so often, there is precisely zero the system tray UI can do about it. the bug lies with the application. if there is an icon to show, it is shown. if it goes away, it is removed.
"there is precisely zero the system tray UI can do about it." It can remember what has previously been in the system tray and keep it there so I can tell it to stay hidden. Windows system tray does this.