Xpra: Ticket #2197: help gnome users find a way to get statusicon back

Follow up for #406.

If we find that the topicons / appindicator extension is not installed, show a warning dialog and offer to install the package (by calling packagekit? only if we know the package name?) Have an option to not show the dialog again (and save to .local/share/xpra/conf.d/80_gnomeshell_warning.conf?).

If the extension is installed but not enabled, offer to enable it:

Once all of this has been done, offer to restart gnome shell



Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:22:16 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed

See also: AppIndicator3 Indicator props connected: True if we have a reasonable expectation of being displayed through this object. You should hide your TrayIcon? if so.


Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:22:44 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Too hard to make this work reliably on all platforms (even just RPM platforms), so WONTFIX.

A "better" solution would be #476, see ticket:2161#comment:3


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:44:47 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2197