Tray does not show up

[dancju]

• sway version: 1.0
• config: default
• bar: i3status
• log: https://gist.github.com/nerddan/4abb9e982073e37d7b441a8a46343d89

The tray icons do not show. If I run another bar through swaybar, an exactly identical bar shows and still without tray icons, and the terminal has these output:

$ swaybar --bar_id bar-0
i3status: trying to auto-detect output_format setting
i3status: auto-detected "i3bar"
2019-04-28 19:11:47 - [sway-1.0/swaybar/tray/watcher.c:185] Failed to acquire service name: File exists
2019-04-28 19:11:47 - [sway-1.0/swaybar/tray/watcher.c:185] Failed to acquire service name: File exists
^CExiting due to signal.

These lines also appeared in the log.

Here is the line printed the error log.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/swaybar/tray/watcher.c#L185

[rumpelsepp]

The support for tray icons is not fully implemented yet. I think the following links might be interesting for you:

• Planned swaybar tray features #3799
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#where-are-my-tray-icons

[dancju]

I don't get it. Is it not implemented at all, or some features is missing?
My tray is not shown at all, is this the supposed behaviour?

[rumpelsepp]

AFAIK there are different APIs to let your app notify that there is tray functionality available (there is a list in the referenced issue). Not all of them are implemented.

[Kommynct]

Depending on your distro, try installing libappindicator-gtk3 or your distros equivalent package.

[dancju]

@Kommynct Thank you! I installed libappindicator-gtk3 and had sway restarted, but nothing changed. Even the error information is still

2019-04-28 19:11:47 - [sway-1.0/swaybar/tray/watcher.c:185] Failed to acquire service name: File exists

[QasimK]

(I installed libappindicator-gtk3 and the tray icon did appear for me at least)

[ObiWahn]

My problem was that I did not have a DBUS session. After creating systemd user services the icons started to appear in the swaybar after the next login. If you struggle make sure that set | grep DBUS shows something like DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus.