Skype tray icon

marcusvinicius

I think I've already seen someone talking about it on our last forum, but I'm not sure if I saw an answer to that: will we have a fix to our Skype tray icon issue? Or reducing it is the only way to solve it?

Thanks!

JoshStrobl

It's not a Budgie issue, it's an issue with Skype, they're the ones responsible for providing the tray icon.

nodq

Here is a microsoft thread about this isssue. It happened after 8.20.x of skype it seems, I guess they updated to GTK3 or whatever.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_linux-skype_startms-skype_installms/system-tray-icon-in-xfce/d3f162bf-0bbf-481b-90a1-f43cae9a86cc

However, workaround is this:

Edit the file

/usr/share/applications/skypeforlinux.desktop

change

Exec=/usr/bin/skypeforlinux %U

Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity /usr/bin/skypeforlinux %U

marcusvinicius

@JoshStrobl, thanks for correcting me with that, I really didn't know how should I classify it.

@nodq, thanks for the tip! It worked here! 😃

pingouinormand

Hi,
I got around the problem by reducing the size of the taskbar icons.
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