Bug 356937 - Xembed icons have black background
Summary: Xembed icons have black background
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XembedSNIProxy (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.3
Platform: Archlinux Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords:
: 358931 359522 366578 372694 385459 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-12-20 10:13 UTC by sbsbs15
Modified: 2017-12-17 15:39 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

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Example (3.37 KB, image/png)
2015-12-20 10:15 UTC, sbsbs15
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systray with problem (2.78 KB, image/png)
2016-01-11 09:52 UTC, ad1rie3
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Screenshot (6.22 KB, image/png)
2016-02-04 20:29 UTC, Mircea Kitsune
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Megasync and Enpass with black background (11.74 KB, image/png)
2017-01-28 03:32 UTC, Huon
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pamac tray icon on Antergos (11.72 KB, image/png)
2017-07-20 15:01 UTC, Dr. Chapatin
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Thunderbird and SkypeForLinux with black background (10.02 KB, image/png)
2017-09-12 16:03 UTC, Vincas Dargis
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Description sbsbs15 2015-12-20 10:13:37 UTC
When I open any application that uses Xembed, the icon shown have black background.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open skype, deluge, vlc, etc...
Comment 1 sbsbs15 2015-12-20 10:15:48 UTC
Created attachment 96207 [details]
Example
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2015-12-22 00:03:49 UTC
Note that SNI/appinidicator is *always* the only supported way. 

For Skype and VLC that is definitely available.
look for sni-qt 32bit for skype.

I don't know about Deluge, but if it does not support it a bug should be filed against Deluge for not following modern specs.

Can you also confirm you have 5.5.1, there were some changes in this area between 5.5.0 and 5.5.1
Comment 3 sbsbs15 2015-12-22 00:31:28 UTC
I'm using 5.5.1. In my laptop skype looks fine, with the correct background, but in another computer with the same packages, skype (and all xembed apps) have the black background.

I've tried installing lig32-sni-qt, and nothing. What can be?

Thanks.
Comment 4 sbsbs15 2015-12-25 05:16:51 UTC
Fresh archlinux install today on the same computer (plasma 5.5.2) and the issue persist. Installing sni-qt and lib32-sni-qt the black background in vlc dissapears, but in skype continues.

I hope you can fix it.

Thank you and merry christmas
Comment 5 Viorel-Cătălin Răpițeanu 2016-01-02 23:16:58 UTC
I've seen this behaviour when using hexchat. The occurrence if not always, but frequent.
Comment 6 sbsbs15 2016-01-09 02:50:19 UTC
Happens with 5.5.3 too.
Comment 7 ad1rie3 2016-01-11 09:52:35 UTC
Created attachment 96581 [details]
systray with problem

i dont have a black background but purple on dropbox only :D and invisible icon for keepass2 (v 2.30) but you can see a very small point , i think it's a resize problem for keepass2

On screen you can see in this order: keepass, dropbox, skype
Comment 8 David Edmundson 2016-02-04 20:03:00 UTC
*** Bug 358931 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Mircea Kitsune 2016-02-04 20:29:49 UTC
Created attachment 97013 [details]
Screenshot

Confirming this on Plasma 5.5.3. In my case, the issue was introduced several days ago by a package update in openSUSE Tumbleweed.

http://i.imgur.com/7of6W2v.png
Comment 10 David Edmundson 2016-02-28 22:16:38 UTC
*** Bug 359522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Roman Gilg 2016-02-28 22:26:08 UTC
I have also a purple tray symbol background on the Telegram Desktop app (Version 0.9.28, I downloaded the application directly from their website. It autoupdates).
Comment 12 sosa.daniel23 2016-03-01 17:08:23 UTC
Purple background with the official telegram desktop client downloaded from https://desktop.telegram.org/
Comment 13 Oswald Buddenhagen 2016-07-24 17:47:55 UTC
not sure if this has the same root cause, but it sure sounds related:
the somewhat dynamic gnome-mail-notification tray icon dissolves into a blurry mess over time. it appears that it expects the proxy window to be pre-cleared for it.
Comment 14 Mircea Kitsune 2016-07-24 18:29:42 UTC
The issue seems to have been solved for me in the latest versions of Plasma 5. I haven't seen it for quite a few months with Skype.
Comment 15 Viorel-Cătălin Răpițeanu 2016-07-24 21:33:17 UTC
I haven't seen this issue anymore.
I believe that this can be closed as resolved.
Comment 16 Christoph Feck 2017-01-19 15:01:55 UTC
*** Bug 366578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Huon 2017-01-28 03:31:38 UTC
For what it's worth, I'm getting this too. Happens on desktop (intel iGPU) but not laptop (nvidia).

Apps are Megasync and Enpass:
http://i.imgur.com/z39j2Y6.png

Plasma version: plasma-desktop 5.8.5-1
Comment 18 Huon 2017-01-28 03:32:57 UTC
Created attachment 103674 [details]
Megasync and Enpass with black background
Comment 19 David Edmundson 2017-02-28 20:46:18 UTC
*** Bug 372694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Huon 2017-02-28 21:38:46 UTC
For me, this only happens if the app is set to start at boot. Putting in a 15 second delay in the startup command fixes the issue.

Something about them starting before X maybe?
Comment 21 Jakub Schmidtke 2017-07-19 15:32:03 UTC
I am seeing it too, with Chrome (including Hangouts extension icon) and Slack.
Plasma 5.10.3.
Comment 22 Guo Yunhe 2017-07-19 15:36:02 UTC
(In reply to Jakub Schmidtke from comment #21)
> I am seeing it too, with Chrome (including Hangouts extension icon) and
> Slack.
> Plasma 5.10.3.

Hi Jakub, I also use slack with KDE 5.10.3 but never has this problem. Are you using latest version of Slack from their official website?
Comment 23 Jakub Schmidtke 2017-07-19 15:41:32 UTC
I am using slack-desktop 2.6.3-1 from AUR.
Also, I just removed xf86-video-intel to try to deal with some other graphics issues (so I'm supposedly using modesetting driver instead),
and that's when this started happening.
Comment 24 Dr. Chapatin 2017-07-20 14:45:14 UTC
slack tray icon has no problem on my Antergos Arch-based.
Comment 25 Dr. Chapatin 2017-07-20 15:01:21 UTC
Created attachment 106763 [details]
pamac tray icon on Antergos

This bug affects pamac tray icon.
Comment 26 Vincas Dargis 2017-09-12 15:55:46 UTC
I have discovered same problem on Kubuntu 16.04 with KDE PPA after some update, with Thunderbird and SkypeForLinux icons. 

Same issue persist on Debian Testing.

Here is Debian bug report from other user:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832900
Comment 27 Vincas Dargis 2017-09-12 16:03:11 UTC
Created attachment 107819 [details]
Thunderbird and SkypeForLinux with black background
Comment 28 Christoph Feck 2017-10-18 12:30:07 UTC
*** Bug 385459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29 Alexander Mentyu 2017-12-05 18:42:56 UTC
Enpass, Skype, Slack and Megasync tray icons are looking ok
KeePass2 (2.32 dev) tray icon is blank

Enpass has no App Launcher icon - it's appears after restart - not sure possibly due to updates applied at the same time

Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition - Stable Branches
Plasma: 5.11.4
Frameworks: 5.41.0
Qt: 5.9.3
Kernel 4.10.0-40-generic
Type: 64-bit
Comment 30 Alexander Mentyu 2017-12-05 19:11:17 UTC
KeePass issue is here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358240

Pidgin tray icon is displayed ok
Comment 31 precal24 2017-12-17 15:39:56 UTC
Same problem with MEGAsync.