On 25/09/2024 15:02, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 2024-09-25 at 11:09:08 +0200, > Daniel Ranc <daniel.ranc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am experiencing some strangeness with the Adwaita tray icons of >> VLC and volumeicon. They disappeared from the tray around this >> summer (unfortunately no precise data here) and I needed to >> revert to the latest working package >> adwaita-icon-theme-41.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst for those icons to work >> again. >> >> My environment is using stalonetray and a very simple window >> manager (no Gnome, no KDE whatsoever). > > Old school. Me, too. :-) > >> Are others impacted as well ? Any clue how to get back on track ? >> >> Interestingly last week some apps suddenly showed completely >> black windows: simple-scan and pavucontrol, and i had to revert >> to older packages to make them work again. Are those phenomena >> related? > > Another possibility is that your applications are starting to use the > Status Notifier Icon API. From my ~/.xinit file: > > # iwgtk does Status Notifier Icon, but some system trays > # (*cough*, tint2, stalonetray, *cough*) don't, so we use > # snixembed instead > snixembed & sleep $delay > > So maybe install snixembed from AUR[0]? > > [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snixembed Interesting! Thank you for the pointer. However the culprit apps (simple-scan, pavucontrol) do not use tray icons at all. They simply open a black, empty window. It seems the issue with those is not related to my icon issue, after all.
