tray icons not showing

[cycomanic]

I can not make tray icons show. I've gone through the discussion at #1372 but nothing mentioned there worked for me, neither appindicator icons nore ksni items work. Nothing shows. Attached is the log for swaybar when I start konversation. I'm running sway compiled from source on ubuntu 17.10.
swaybar6.log
Sway cmake output.
cmake.txt

[ddevault]

What software are you using that does not work?

[cycomanic]

I've tried konversation, tried vlc, tried the script mentioned in the other discussion based on python-kde4: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/blob/master/indicator-test-tool/ksni.py
clementine (with sni-qt installed). Not sure what other ones to test. It does not seem that there is a tray area even showing. If I add a separator_symbol and tray_padding to very high numbers nothing changes on the bar.

[4e554c4c]

@cycomanic Yep, that's intended. If there aren't any items then tray_padding doesn't do anything. Also separator_symbol doesn't apply to the tray. In your logs it shows that it finds konversation and its icon just fine, so I don't see what's wrong. (perhaps try resetting all those config changes and try again?)

See:

sway/swaybar/tray/tray.c

Lines 324 to 329 in 7c3b0ff

	const int item_size = (window->height * window->scale) - (2 * tray_padding);
	if (item_size < 0) {
	// Can't render items if the padding is too large
	return tray_width;
	}

If tray_padding is too large then the tray won't render.

[cycomanic]

OK, just did a check after removing the padding, konversation is working now. None of the other apps are showing I suspect that's due to #1372 ? I thought according to the thread there the ksni.py utility should work?

[cycomanic]

OK, just did a check after removing the padding, konversation is working now. None of the other apps are showing I suspect that's due to #1372 ? I thought according to the thread there the ksni.py utility should work?

[ddevault]

Move this discussion to #1372