When I log out from my current Xfce session and log back in, insync show a notification saying that it is already running so it will quit. I checked and there was indeed this process running:
./insync start
but no icon was shown on the notification area. I had to kill it and start insync again to get the icon to appear on the notification area.
I’m running insync 1.2.6.35101-trusty over Xubuntu 14.10.
@marcelpaulo See howto here. (LINUX) How to solve the issue "tray icon is not showing"
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks @roald for that howto, I missed it when I searched the forum, before posting. However, it addresses a different problem than mine. The insync icon is showing on the notification area, as you can see here:
However, if I log out from my current Xfce session, and log back in, insync stays running:
paulo@monk:~$ ps -ef | grep insync
paulo 8072 1 0 Abr07 ? 00:01:36 ./insync start
paulo 8493 8446 0 01:56 pts/1 00:00:00 grep insync
but the icon is not shown on the notification area:
I know that I can kill the currently running insync instance and start it back, that’s what I’ve been doing, but I hope you will agree that insync should be able to restore itself on the notification area on its own, without the need of manual intervention. To intervene manually is a workaround but not a solution: if insync can’t restore its original state (running AND showing its icon on the notification area) after a logout/login, it’s failing to perform a basic task in a desktop environment.
I consider this a bug which needs to be adressed.
Paulo
PS: sni-qt is installed:
paulo@monk:~$ apt-cache policy sni-qt
sni-qt:
Installed: 0.2.6-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.2.6-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.2.6-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
EDIT: If package sni-qt is indeed necessary for insync, I’d suggest including it in the Depends section of the package, so that it’s always installed together with insync.
@marcelpaulo Do you have other Qt apps like Skype or DropBox (version 3 or higher) installed? Do they also have the same issue?
Hey, good idea !
paulo@monk:~$ ps -ef | grep -i skype
paulo 10751 10697 0 09:37 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i skype
I don’t have Dropbox installed right now. But it does look like a QT problem. syncthing (the round blue icon) is GTK, and doesn’t have problems.
You will have noticed that the insync daemon is on the panel after resuming from suspend. It doesn’t, as I showed before, but I whipped a workaround: Xubuntu uses lightdm as display manager, so I installed a logout hook in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
session-cleanup-script=/home/paulo/bin/lightdm-cleanup
This script gets (from a config file) a list of processes to kill when a lightdm session finishes:
KILL='textaid-server insync megasync'
and kills them all:
for process in $KILL
do
pid=$(pgrep -f $process)
if [[ $pid ]]; then
kill $pid
display killed $process pid $pid
fi
done
PS: I don’t use megasync but my mother does, and I sync the script/config between our desktops. I’ll check whether it’s also QT, and report back. It behaves like insync on suspending: the process stays running, but the icon disappears from the notification area. Which reminds me: I’ll open a bug report with them, too.
Oh, wrong conclusions ! If Skype was gone after resuming from logout, it’s working as expected. Just to confirm:
So, as Skype doesn’t exhibit the error, I suppose it’s not related to QT.
PS: As I said, the insync icon is showing because my script kills insync when the lightdm session ends
Thanks for testing. It seems like a general case of the Insync tray icon not showing at startup. It’s on our list of TODOs. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Perhaps, to be more precise, the core problem is: why insync doesn’t die on session logout? That’s what causes what I observed. I see now that I reported a symptom and not a root cause.
Well, the workaround is now documented here in case someone gets bitten by the same problem.
It was fun testing it!
That’s an avenue that we can investigate, thanks for the suggestion.