tray icon is missing on linux (flatpak)

[Fuseteam]

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Steps to reproduce

1. install talk-desktop as a flatpak
2. launch talk-desktop

Expected behaviour

There should be a tray icon in the notification area (forgot the name of the region they appear in)

Actual behaviour

no tray icon is seen

Diagnosis and logs

Diagnosis report

Diagnosis report

Nextcloud Talk Desktop
Version	v1.0.1
Built-in Talk version	v20.1.1
Operating system	Linux 6.8.0-51-generic (#52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 5 13:09:44 UTC 2024)
Executable Path	/app/lib/com.nextcloud.talk/Nextcloud Talk
Using Wayland	✅ yes
Connected to	-
Nextcloud server version	30.0.4
Nextcloud Talk version	20.1.1
notifications app enabled	✅ yes
notify_push app enabled	✅ yes

Application config

{
  "theme": "dark",
  "systemTitleBar": true,
  "monochromeTrayIcon": false,
  "zoomFactor": 1,
  "playSoundChat": "respect-dnd",
  "playSoundCall": "respect-dnd",
  "enableCallbox": "respect-dnd"
}

Client logs

no errors

[nickvergessen]

Works fine here on Ubuntu 24.10, what are you using?

[Fuseteam]

i'm ubuntu sway 24.04 while a colleague with the same issue is on bazzite (fedora silverblue) with the tray icons reloaded extension

[ShGKme]

@Fuseteam Do you also use tray-icons-reloaded?

Could you run Talk Desktop from terminal and check for any errors in the log?

[Fuseteam]

@ShGKme i use sway, it seemed to work fine when i was using the preview via the zip package

when i run it from the terminal i get this:

[3:0110/103656.599773:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[3:0110/103656.765036:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[3:0110/103656.765077:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Vue Devtools extension is installed

[ShGKme]

@Fuseteam I'm not really familiar with Sway, but having many reports about problems with the tray icon in the sway repo, I'm not sure the problem is on our (or maybe flatpak) side...

But just in case, could you try to run:

flatpak override --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierItem com.nextcloud.talk

If I'm not mistaking...

[Fuseteam]

that unfortunately does not seem to solve it.

I have now double checked and the latest zip version does have a tray icon, it appears to be specific to the flatpak

the difference in logs seems to indicate to me that some dbus connection is failing perhaps?

[ShGKme]

@Fuseteam Thanks! One last thing, could you try this:

flatpak override --talk-name=org.freedesktop.StatusNotifier.Watcher com.nextcloud.talk

You can then reset everything by

flatpak override --reset com.nextcloud.talk

the difference in logs seems to indicate to me that some dbus connection is failing perhaps?

override --talk-name actually changes the Session Bus Policy for connection.

[Fuseteam]

unfortunately no luck

[ShGKme]

Eh, thanks for the testing.

Then I'm out of ideas. Will try to install and test sway on my machine