On 25/09/2024 15:02, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
> On 2024-09-25 at 11:09:08 +0200,
> Daniel Ranc <daniel.r...@telecom-sudparis.eu> 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.
