New Budgie ISO and system tray. What happened?

Entomical_Cynegetic

Hello Team..

I'm a returned user and since I installed the new Budgie ISO I'm finding the issue that icons from applications that are running at the background (Redshift, Psensor, Lutris...) are simply not showing up in the system tray.
After some troubleshooting and not getting anywhere, I posted the following question @/r/SolusProject/

As you can see in the link, an user answered that that feature has been discontinued from the system... and now I'm even more confused than before.
So, - if that is true - Why such a handy/necessary feature (that otherwise has been always presented in Budgie Solus) has been removed? Any comments on this?

alfisya

I don't think they (budgie) removed system tray. I am not using budgie. Did you already update the system?

Entomical_Cynegetic

alfisya Sure, every Week-end as usual.

alfisya

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alfisya

For lutris at least, the system tray icon has been bork for sometime now. In GNOME with extension. What about steam? Do you use steam?

Entomical_Cynegetic

alfisya Thx! No, not using Steam but Redshift and Psensor,

It seems like the link I posted is not visible

I installed the ISO twice already and also tried nohup budgie-panel --reset --replace & but nothing is showing up.

SethStorm666

System tray in Budgie works fine for Steam and Spotify.

Entomical_Cynegetic

SethStorm666 Thx for clarify it!. Could it be that the issue is only related to those apps (Redshift, Psensor and Lutris)?
As mentioned, I didn't have such problem in previous installments...

alfisya

Entomical_Cynegetic I just tried it on gnome, both redshift and psensor doesnt provide tray icon. In progress to confirm it on fedora and arch. maybe our package is old or broken.

ring0

The ones I use seem fine on Solus Budgie installed yesterday

But now that you mention it I tried enabling the system tray feature in Lutris settings, and you're right it doesn't show. I don't use system tray for Lutris usually just wanted to confirm

EbonJaeger

Newer Budgie Desktop migrated to a newer, updated standard for tray items. Unfortunately, some applications still only use an old version of the standard/libraries.

Entomical_Cynegetic

EbonJaeger Thx at least we getting somewhere!!
Happy to hear that discontinuity of system tray feature was a false alarm.

alfisya

yeah, even on fedora and arch both of them doesn't have tray icon

penny-farthing

Entomical_Cynegetic

If the Redshift icon no longer appears in the taskbar, the application remains active, provided that you launch the geoclue2 service at session startup, as indicated in this post of @Staudey dated 07/29/2023:

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9569-sync-updates-for-week-30-2023/15

That said, there is a good alternative to Redshift, it's the Budgie Night Light applet.

brent

penny-farthing If the Redshift icon no longer appears in the taskbar, the application remains active, provided that you launch the geoclue2 service at session startup, as indicated in this post of @Staudey dated 07/29/2023:

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9569-sync-updates-for-week-30-2023/15

That said, there is a good alternative to Redshift, it's the Budgie Night Light applet.

budgie applet is not autostart yet that's why I ditched it. Josh said at BofB it's now on the make-it-happen list.
Many times redshift is not using geolocation and will default to xrandr. Don't know exactly how that works.
you are right it can be active an not be in the tray, and it can be active and be in the tray, it's weird that way.

I've read a bajillion redshift create-a-.conf-file stories and none of them worked.

REDSHIFT PRO-TIP I just learned:
1) after system boots simply terminal: redshift -O 3200 (or wherever you like it). Instant bliss.
and
2) budgie autostart command: : redshift -O 3200 (or wherever you like it)

brent

penny-farthing also someone told me you could write a script to start the budgie night light and make that an autostartup script but I have no idea how to achieve this

penny-farthing

brent

I don't know who said that to you, but I don't know how to do this too.

What I did:

I installed the applet Night Light,
then, I made a left click on the icon of the Night Light applet situated on the middle of the lower tasks bar,
a window appeared and I activated the night light and customized the display settings like below, and that's it!

craigtoyoracer

I am running a fully updated Budgie with night light in the Tray and it works as intended. Sorry it is in the Tray so it autostarts with no commands. 🙂

brent

craigtoyoracer I am running a fully updated Budgie with night light in the Tray and it works as intended. Sorry it is in the Tray so it autostarts with no commands.

Incredible. I never got the tray ever...or regular bootup autostart even when activated in settings from 5am to 4:59am coverage. wonder what we are doing different?

craigtoyoracer

brent I have Top Panel added Night Light. Open from the tray -> set temp. -> time 6pm 700am -> turn on. Done 🙂

Axios

I was just looking at that and yes it works as intended.

Axios

craigtoyoracer Yup the same.