swaybar renders fcitx's tray icon as red sad face

[Arnavion]

(Copying from #4825 (comment) on emersion's request to not reuse that issue.)

• Sway Version: sway version v1.5

• Debug Log: https://gist.github.com/Arnavion/0718ea34304e9188d5d5197ef651585c#file-sway-debug-log (swaybar was also run with -d)

• Configuration File: Minimal config https://gist.github.com/Arnavion/0718ea34304e9188d5d5197ef651585c#file-sway-debug-config

• Stack Trace: None

• Description:

swaybar renders fcitx's tray icon as a red sad face just like in #4825:

$ grep -i tray sway-debug.log

00:00:00.115 [swaybar/tray/tray.c:37] Initializing tray
00:00:00.116 [swaybar/tray/watcher.c:202] Registered org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierWatcher
00:00:00.116 [swaybar/tray/watcher.c:186] Failed to acquire service name 'org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher':another tray is already running
00:00:00.116 [swaybar/tray/host.c:198] Registered org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierHost-93313
00:00:00.117 [swaybar/tray/host.c:198] Registered org.kde.StatusNotifierHost-93313
00:00:00.117 [swaybar/tray/icon.c:313] Failed to load theme 'default' - parsing of file '/home/arnavion/.icons/default/index.theme' failed on line 5 (group 'Icon Theme'): missing required key 'Directories'
00:00:00.120 [swaybar/tray/icon.c:379] Loaded icon themes: Hicolor, Adwaita
00:00:00.132 00:00:00.435 [swaybar/tray/watcher.c:107] Registering Status Notifier Host 'org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierHost-93313'
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/host.c:24] Registering Status Notifier Item 'org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem'
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem IconThemePath = ''
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem Status = 'Active'
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem IconName = 'input-keyboard'
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem IconPixmap: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.IconPixmap')
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem AttentionIconName = ''
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem AttentionIconPixmap: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.AttentionIconPixmap')
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem ItemIsMenu: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.ItemIsMenu')
00:00:00.132 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-99416-1/StatusNotifierItem Menu = '/MenuBar'
00:00:02.062 [swaybar/tray/host.c:24] Registering Status Notifier Item 'org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem'
00:00:02.063 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem IconThemePath = ''
00:00:02.063 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem Status = 'Active'
00:00:02.063 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem IconName = 'input-keyboard'
00:00:02.072 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem IconPixmap: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.IconPixmap')
00:00:02.072 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem AttentionIconName = ''
00:00:02.072 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem AttentionIconPixmap: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.AttentionIconPixmap')
00:00:02.072 [swaybar/tray/item.c:121] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem ItemIsMenu: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.ItemIsMenu')
00:00:02.072 [swaybar/tray/item.c:152] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-93317-1/StatusNotifierItem Menu = '/MenuBar'

(There are two icons because the first one is from fcitx running in my original tty with a non-debug sway session, and the second is from the fcitx exec_always'd into the debug sway session.)

fcitx according to dbus has:

(Note: This image is from the original issue, which is why the dbus names doesn't match.)

To clarify for anyone not familiar with d-feet's UI: .IconName is set to "input-keyboard", .IconThemePath is set to "". I did not query the other properties which is why they don't show their values.

Looking at swaybar/tray/item.c, the error logs are benign since it just gets whatever properties it can. It does look up icon using the value it got from IconName, so I'm not sure why it's failing to find it.

$ find /usr/share/icons -name 'input-keyboard.*'

/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/16x16/legacy/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/22x22/legacy/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/24x24/legacy/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/256x256/legacy/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/legacy/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/48x48/legacy/input-keyboard.png

FWIW the tray icon renders fine with waybar. It appears to be using the /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/16x16/legacy/input-keyboard.png one.

And in case that index.theme error is relevant:

$ cat ~/.icons/default/index.theme

# This file is written by LXAppearance. Do not edit.
[Icon Theme]
Name=Default
Comment=Default Cursor Theme
Inherits=Adwaita

[ianyfan]

Set your bar's icon theme to Adwaita

[Arnavion]

Thanks. That works, and also makes sense:

icon_theme <name>

   Sets the icon theme that sway will look for item icons in. This option has no default value, because sway will always default to the fallback theme, hicolor.

I guess waybar works by default because it gets the icon theme from the general GTK configuration.

[ianyfan]

It would probably help to add a debug message about which icon theme is being used.

[tobiasjakobi]

I had the same problem and setting the icon theme to Adwaita indeed now renders the fcitx symbol correctly. However sway stil spams the journal with messages of this type:
sway[6294]: 00:02:39.215 [ERROR] [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-6307-1/StatusNotifierItem IconPixmap: No such property ('org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.IconPixmap')

Anything I am missing here?

[amano-kenji]

This issue appeared again after the latest system update. The icon theme is Adwaita.

[TinusgragLin]

This issue appeared again after the latest system update. The icon theme is Adwaita.

@amano-kenji Happened to me this morning after I updated my Arch. I tried installing a new random icon theme (cutefish-icons, specifically) and using the new icon theme instead. Turns out it works!

[neilbags]

I fixed this in Ubuntu 23.10 by installing adwaita-icon-theme-full and setting gtk-icon-theme-name=Adwaita in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini