Missing system tray icons in new Ubuntu 14.04 installation

[timur-tabi]

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04. Everything works, except the system tray has no icons. I've spent the better part of the day googling for answers and trying different things, but none of them worked. I even created a new account from scratch, and that one still has the problem.

There must be a way to fix this without reinstalling everything. The indicators are running:


$ ps aux | grep indicator
timur 6406 0.0 0.0 475792 7784 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service
timur 6408 0.0 0.0 758476 5936 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-session/indicator-session-service
timur 6409 0.0 0.0 286748 5004 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-application/indicator-application-service
timur 6416 0.0 0.0 259324 2876 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-bluetooth/indicator-bluetooth-service
timur 6433 0.0 0.0 439932 14864 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-printers/indicator-printers-service
timur 6443 0.0 0.0 331292 3444 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-messages/indicator-messages-service
timur 6462 0.0 0.3 1663452 55260 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service
timur 7027 0.0 0.0 449892 13048 ? Sl 11:49 0:00 telepathy-indicator
timur 15109 0.0 0.0 11748 908 pts/2 S+ 12:28 0:00 grep indicator

[dino99]

i'm a gnome-shell user, and have installed the extension 'TrayIcon' to satisfy some apps and because it is what i prefer ):P
the extensions can be founs at extensions.gnome.org and/or with gnome-tweak

[timur-tabi]

I'm running Unity, not gnome-shell, so your advice doesn't help me. My problem is specifically with Unity's Application and System Indicators.

Another symptom: If I go to Settings->Appearance->Behavior and set "Show the menus for a window" to "In the menu bar", I see the name of the application in the upper-left corner, but clicking on it does nothing, and I don't have any menus in the menu bar. The menus are still in the application's windows.

[timur-tabi]

So it looks like I'm affected by bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1253693

[v3.xx]

And your able to use the work-a-round?

[timur-tabi]

Yes, I just start ./indicator-applet-appmenu manually from the command line, and everything works now. Even the application menus appear in the menu bar.

What I don't understand is why the problem isn't reported by the OS. All of these indicator applications are launched and running, and none of them notice that indicator-applet-appmenu isn't running! When I go to the "Panel" setting in unity-tweak-tool, how come I don't see an error message there either?

[v3.xx]

I don't have any good answers.

Maybe v15.04 is the solution, that would get you on systemd. Next month 15.10 comes out.

Good luck

[timur-tabi]

Unfortunately, my system is managed by corporate IT, so I can't upgrade to 15. They only recently offered 14 as an option.