Debian stable / Gnome / Tray Icon / sni-qt

[bignfan]

Hello

debian is up to date

don’t have tray icon on both installations

found this:

(LINUX) How to solve the issue "tray icon is not showing"

Below are the common causes for the tray icon not showing. sni-qt is not installed. Try installing it then restart Insync. In some cases, when Insync is set to run at startup the tray icon is not shown. To confirm that Insync is running but there's no tray icon, run ps -ef | grep 'insync start'; if there's an output then Insync is running. In this case, try stopping then restarting Insync to see if the tray icon will show. Check if there's an entry in your crontab for Insync by running cront…

but package manager can’t find sni-qt

pls help me

[jaduenas]

Will be tagging our engineer @lpugoy and he will get back to you.

[lpugoy]

@bignfan: What version of Debian are you using, and what desktop environment?

[bignfan]

actual stable version 8.4, gnome
kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64

just installed with the CD1, text installer, standard installation with gnome
added insync, chrome, vmware workstation, xfreerdp nightly (need rdg support)

[lpugoy]

@bignfan: I see. Please try installing the TopIcons extension to show the tray icon in GNOME (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/495/topicons/).

[bignfan]

Hello!

tried topicons plus… but i cant activate it - i think it needs a newer gnome

i tried then this: https://github.com/mjnaderi/TopTray
because url of topicons didn’t function at the moment (on the link you posted)

unpack zip
go with shell to fo folder
make
alt-f2
r [enter]
gnome-tweak-tool (in shell)
extensions: toptray [enable]

that is it!