Curious System Tray Loading

[Georgetoon]

The first time I log in I get a system tray with a Printer icon, a clipboard icon (for clipper) and volume icon (and the volume pop up action from the icon does not work).

Logging of and back on, the system tray changes.  the printer icon is gone,the clipboard icon is gone and replaced with scissors and the volume icon now works with the pop up action.

Scratching my head.

[Crow]

I'm using KDE in my home desktop and same thing happens.

[joseph_1802]

I have the same problem. I also noticed that the system notifications icon at startup (tells me I have to replace my battery) doesn't work properly in that case. Logging out and back in solves the problem, though.
That didn't happen to me before upgrading to KDE 4.8.3, so maybe it's a bug without a solution yet.

[T6]

i can't replicate on two machines

what method did you used?  update by hand or kdeupgrade?

i also have the change battery but in my case is correct, acpi -v confirms what i see, less than half of original capacity left, time to get a new netbook

[Georgetoon]

i can't replicate on two machines

what method did you used?  update by hand or kdeupgrade?

i also have the change battery but in my case is correct, acpi -v confirms what i see, less than half of original capacity left, time to get a new netbook

I only have the issue on my desktop, but not on my notebook.  I did the manual update on both machines, though.

[Just17]

Try with a new user account .....  if it doesn't happen then it is something in your user settings/config that is causing it.

[JohnW_57]

I guess 7 or 8 icons fits in the system tray and if more enabled click on the arrow icon and you get other icons in a pop-up.

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/SystemTray/en

Looks like it's not a bug.

JohnW

[T6]

yes, the arrow lets you see more icons but some remain visible unless there is not enough space, volume and the klipper should remain visible but since kde 4.6 sometimes they load in different order, still i haven't seen what others report and doesn't sound like what is described on that link

[Georgetoon]

It's still happening on my desktop system.  It disappeared for a bit and is now back.  I'll try logging into another user account

[T6]

could it be that the taskbar is filling more space than it supposed to?

to discard that, in the desktop unlock widgets, on the taskbar/panel settings/more settings/maximize panel

lock widgets again and see if makes a difference

[Georgetoon]

could it be that the taskbar is filling more space than it supposed to?

to discard that, in the desktop unlock widgets, on the taskbar/panel settings/more settings/maximize panel

lock widgets again and see if makes a difference

Thanks!:) I'l give that a try tonight.

[Gagarin Gambit]

Bump!

I have the same issue since kde 4.8, and it persists even after today's update to kde 4.9.5. It also has some other side effects, such as global shortcuts not working and the language icon disappearing. In my case it happens randomly, roughly 1 out of 5 times. According to my observations, it seems possible that it happens only when the klipper is the first system tray icon to load.

It's only a minor inconvenience, I simply reboot when that happens. But I've been wandering - is it a KDE issue? A PCLOS issue? Or is it because I haven't changed my user settings since 4.5? (no, I'm not recreating them from scratch just to test it, this is a *heavily* customised desktop)

[menotu]

Bump!

I have the same issue since kde 4.8, and it persists even after today's update to kde 4.9.5. It also has some other side effects, such as global shortcuts not working and the language icon disappearing. In my case it happens randomly, roughly 1 out of 5 times. According to my observations, it seems possible that it happens only when the klipper is the first system tray icon to load.

It's only a minor inconvenience, I simply reboot when that happens. But I've been wandering - is it a KDE issue? A PCLOS issue? Or is it because I haven't changed my user settings since 4.5? (no, I'm not recreating them from scratch just to test it, this is a *heavily* customised desktop)

Hey Gagarin Gambit

Can you possibly explain a bit more about your user settings since 4.5 as I'm unsure just what settings they cover?

Did you check out the following link JohnW posted above?

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/SystemTray/en

[Gagarin Gambit]

Right. I mean that in spite of certain kde updates getting you back to a default desktop, I was always restoring my customised .kde4 folder (first there were instructions from Old Polak, and then came the restore-kde-deskop package). So, it might be possible that this issue is caused by outdated configuration files.
There's not any information I don't know in the said link.