No tray icon in ubuntu 17.10 (solved)

[paraiko]

open a terminal and type:

sudo apt install sni-qt

done

[Costa]

For some reason, it still doesn’t work for me (was using Ubuntu 16.10 LTS, just upgraded to 17.10). sni-qt is installed, and so is TopIcons Plus. I can confirm insync is running, and healthy. Still, no icon on the top bar, even if I restart insync (other icons, such as Pidgin, show just fine). My graphics card is an onboard Sandybridge, by Intel.

Here’s some information:

insync get_status
SHARE

dpkg -l | grep sni-qt
ii sni-qt:amd64 0.2.7+17.04.20170112-0ubuntu1

Any help will be much appreciated

[Costa]

BTW: I used "insync accept_all_new_shares " to solve the SHARED status reported by get_status, but now the status is FEED, which is not listed on this page :

insync get_status
FEED

What does it mean, and how do I change it to SYNCED?

[Martin_S_Ewing]

I’m running 17.10 and not seeing the top bar icon. Insync is running (insync get_status).

Have checked sni-qt, installed Gnome “Topicon” extension.

The maddening thing is that I had the icon until recently. Then I did some system updates (can’t recall which), and now it’s gone. I tried removing and reinstalling insync from the repository.

This is especially annoying because it’s not clear how I set insync preferences except through that icon that I can’t see. Is there a workaround to get to the graphical status/options window?

Suggestions?

Note added: This may be an Ubuntu / Gnome problem. I also have an icon from the hplip package that’s trying to display in the top tray. It also is not reliable. Sometimes I get both the HP icon and Insync’s but other times I get neither.

Further added: I have been using the Gnome extension “system-monitor by Cerin”, which works fine for me. But the Insync and hp-lip icons seem to appear most reliably when system-monitor is disabled. So it looks like the Ubuntu indicators are fighting for tray space with other Gnome extensions. Who’s at fault here? Probably not Insync.

[pprados]

I desactivate all other Gnome shell extensions, without results.

I have the same problem. Can you help us ?

[gbolcer]

sudo apt install sni-qt

Okay, this looks like I didn’t have the sni-qt install to my system, so this message doesn’t show up anymor: No systemtrayicon available problem, but now this:

ERROR:root:Cannot initialize notifications.

Until on Ubuntu 17.10. It’s a pretty vanilla installation.

Also got this warning trying to make sure my nautilus was up to date.
greg@salt:~/.config/Insync$ sys:1: PyGIWarning: Nautilus was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version(‘Nautilus’, ‘3.0’) before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.

[viv.d]

Hi all,

I Have tried all of the following on Ubuntu 17.10 …

1. Installed sni-qt
2. Installed and enabled TopIcons and TopIcons Plus and Ubuntu Appindicators
3. (Re)installed insync

… and I have no icon in the top toolbar.

Installing sni-qt made the insync icon appear, but this did not survive a reboot, and I cannot get the icon back at all.

Please advise on how to proceed.

Thanks,

Viv

[Emiliano_Heyns]

I’ve installed sni-qt (but why isn’t this just a dependency of the package?), gstreamer and top-icons. No insync.

[Emiliano_Heyns]

I’ll be happy to buy a new license, but can we just get the icon (= the only access to the app) back please?

[jimperio]

Hello everyone, we’re really sorry for the delay in fixing this issue, but we are investigating it now and will report back in this thread with any progress or possible workarounds.

Thank you for your patience.

[iestynapmwg]

Perhaps related to this?

Still no menu in systray icon

1.4 beta version number: insync_1.4.1.37037-artful_amd64.deb Operating system: Ubuntu 17.10 Issue: I posted here about this issue, affecting insync 1.3, quite a long time ago. Your systray icon is implemented with the discontinued xembed protocol. The reply at the time was that this would be addressed in an upcoming release. Yet, here we are with the same problem in insync 1.4. xembed support has been dropped from many desktop environments, and replaced with D-bus protocols for interoperabi…

[Martin_S_Ewing]

I have the same problem on 17.10. It worked for a while after removing and reinstalling insync, but has gone away again after some days.

This may be an Ubuntu/Wayland bug. I also have the hp-systray app running (associated with hp-doctor printer management). It also wants to show a menu as an indicator. When the hp icon shows up, so does insync’s icon, and vice versa. Somehow the indicator stuff that worked under unity/xorg does not work reliably on the current default system.

Correction: I checked my login options and found that I WAS running Ubuntu/Xorg. When I switch to the default “Ubuntu” (Wayland), the tray icons appear just fine! So you might check that under the “gear” icon on your login greeting screen.

[jdeorian]

Installing sni-qt fixed the issue for me. I was having a problem using i3wm as a window manager on top of galliumOS 16.4.

This was great - thank you!

[Rune_Paamand]

My solution:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Removing all legacy indicator applications: sudo apt purge indicator-application indicator-appmenu indicator-bluetooth indicator-common indicator-datetime indicator-keyboard indicator-messages indicator-network indicator-power indicator-printers indicator-session indicator-sound indicator-transfer indicator-transfer-download-manager
• Check taht sni-qt is installed: apt install sni-qt
• Install top-icons (or top-icons plus. Both worked for me)
• Restart insync from terminal (insync quit; insync start)

[theBonVoyage]

Installing sni-qt worked for me. Thanks.

[odysseywestra]

For those on Arch, try to install the sni-qt-patched package from the AUR. That fixed the problem for me.

[mrtntlv]

The first option worked for me.
You are a Genius! Thanks!

[Diogo_Baeder]

Hi guys, Arch Linux + GNOME user here. (I already posted this in another topic, but I think it will be useful here too.)

I was finally able to solve this issue now! I already had sni-qt installed, which wasn’t making the icon show up, however I noticed someone saying about conflicting indicators apps, so I went on and uninstalled libappindicator-gtk3 and libindicator-gtk3 - which I had installed a long time ago - and the icon started showing up after starting the session.

I don’t know exactly what’s happening, since I wasn’t able to inspect any logs that might lead to the clues, but my guts tell me insync might be trying to use libindicator-gtk3’s API first instead of sni-qt and end up “thinking” that it’s already showing up. In other words, libindicator-gtk3 might be tricking insync that it’s showing up properly, when it’s actually not.

Cheers!
Diogo

[eli.mit.g]

Hi, Thanks @jaduenas

On Ubuntu 18.04 installing sni-qt worked - Along with having the extension
(K) Status Notifier
(since topicons is no longer supported.)
Eli

[Raymond_Meyer]

Simple restart of the Gnome shell seems to correct this (running 18.04 and have insync starting at boot).

The icon is almost always missing from the menu bar, so doing a ALT+F2, then typing r in the command window box that opens up, then hitting the enter key solves it for me.

The above worked when ALL of prior suggested solutions had been attempted and failed for me.