18.10: missing indicator/tray icons (Steam, Chrome, Dropbox, etc)

[JD82]

On my installation of Ubuntu 18.10 Beta all the indicator icons from Chrome, Dropbox, Ulauncher, InSync and Steam are missing.
These are the indicator currently installed:


And these are the Gnome extensions installed:






Looking Glass shows no error for the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator:







Is this a bug or an expected behavior? Is there any way to get them back?

[1fallen]

Try either TopIcons Plus or Unite extension. Please take the time to read about each to decide which will work for you.
This the best I myself can offer I am not a TopIcons-Plus user myself and not a Gnome user anymore.

Moreover, the Gnome project is pushing towards dropping status icons and any kind of legacy tray, making the project useless on the long term and difficult to maintain due to bugs or lack of features that are out of its scope.

For the Topicons with 3.30 read a possible fix by user "0x3ax" On the Topicons link I posted.

fix 3.30 ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/TopIcons@phocean.net/extension.js:181 replace: -tray.manage_screen(global.screen, Main.panel.actor); +tray.manage_screen(Main.panel.actor);

Let us know how it works out.

[JD82]

Hi 1fallen, thank you for your answer. Unfortunately TopIcons-Plus is not working for me, even after applying the fix for Gnome 3.30. In any case I would like to focus on fixing the issue with gnome-shell-extension-appindicator.

On Launchpad another user just marked himself as affected by it.

I was hoping to find here more people testing the Beta of 18.10 so that I could get additional confirmation of this issue and, maybe, a fix/workaround for it.

[1fallen]

Thanks for your effort on TopIcons >>> helpful information for others.
I do test 18.10 (For ten years now) just not Gnome, I have no active interest.

[dino99]

Hi 1fallen, thank you for your answer. Unfortunately TopIcons-Plus is not working for me, even after applying the fix for Gnome 3.30. In any case I would like to focus on fixing the issue with gnome-shell-extension-appindicator.

On Launchpad another user just marked himself as affected by it.

I was hoping to find here more people testing the Beta of 18.10 so that I could get additional confirmation of this issue and, maybe, a fix/workaround for it.

If you still have some extensions installed from the url, then purge them all, and only install the desired extension(s) from the archive.

nb: topicon works well here on a gnome-shell on xorg session.

[JD82]

Hi dino99, thank you for your suggestion, I will try it later on a brand new user account so to not have any user settings/extensions influence.

If you are on 18.10 could you please try if you have the same issue using gnome-shell-extension-appindicator instead of TopIcons-Plus?

And if you have, could you please mark yourself as affected here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1795121

[P-I H]

I this system at least the Dropbox and Steam indicators work OK. I'm not using the Chrome, Ulauncher and InSynchave indicators.

p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host: pi-MS-7A34 Kernel: 4.18.0-7-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.30.0 
           Distro: Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) v: 1.0 serial: <root required> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.H0 date: 05/02/2018 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           Speed: 1550 MHz min/max: 1550/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1549 2: 1545 3: 1549 4: 1549 5: 1550 
           6: 1549 7: 1550 8: 1542 9: 1549 10: 1543 11: 1555 12: 1545 13: 1550 14: 1545 15: 1549 16: 1550 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X] 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: amdgpu tty: N/A 
           OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.26.0 4.18.0-7-generic LLVM 7.0.0) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.1 
Audio:     Device-1: C-Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] driver: snd_virtuoso 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 580] driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-4: Logitech Webcam C250 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.18.0-7-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: enp30s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 4c:cc:6a:f4:2d:5e 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 689.34 GiB used: 120.83 GiB (17.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra II 240GB size: 223.57 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 227.74 GiB used: 120.83 GiB (53.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 36.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 33 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 514 fan-2: 580 fan-3: 1004 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 751 fan-6: 0 gpu: amdgpu 
           fan: 1162 
Info:      Processes: 375 Uptime: 9h 43m Memory: 15.68 GiB used: 3.79 GiB (24.2%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.24 
p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$

[JD82]

Hi P-I H, this is interesting, could you please post the output of this command?

$ apt list --installed | grep indicator

It will show all the installed packages with the word "indicator" inside the name.

[P-I H]

This is on another computer with Nvidia graphics, installed yesterday. The indicators works OK on this one too.

p-i@pi-GA-990FXA-UD3:~$ apt list --installed | grep indicator


WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.


gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/cosmic,cosmic,now 22-1 all [installed,automatic]
libappindicator1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libappindicator3-1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libindicator3-7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libindicator7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
p-i@pi-GA-990FXA-UD3:~$

[P-I H]

It looks a little bit different on the first system, which has been running Cosmic for months.

p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$ apt list --installed | grep indicator


WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.


gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/cosmic,cosmic,now 22-1 all [installed]
libappindicator1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libappindicator3-1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libindicator3-7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libindicator7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$