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Watnuss

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Registered: 2013-03-04

Posts: 53

[solved] i3 tray not working with nvidia driver

Hi,

I was using nouveau as my gpu driver and just switched to the nvidia blob as I wanted to play some games which had to low fps with the nouveau driver. The games run more smoothly now but no system tray icons are appearing now. (e.g. thunderbird, nm-applet, owncloud)

I have installed i3-wm i3lock i3status dmenu and dex for autostart. Some applications, such as owncloud tell me to install another program for tray handling. But as I didn't need any before switching to the nvidia driver I wonder if that really is the case.

Do you have any ideas why no tray icons are being shown now but have been as I used the nouveau driver? Any ideas are welcome.

Best regards,

watnuss

Last edited by Watnuss (2014-04-20 16:46:52)

Rachus

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Registered: 2012-12-12

Posts: 34

Re: [solved] i3 tray not working with nvidia driver

If you are using i3bar, make sure, that the tray_output option of your bar configuration points to a valid output. I'm not certain if the output names of nouevau an nvidia are identical.

Maybe you can find more information about the problem in i3's error log or shmlog, but i3bar might not be using i3's error reporting facilities.

Watnuss

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Registered: 2013-03-04

Posts: 53

Re: [solved] i3 tray not working with nvidia driver

The bar is also displayed correctly. Just the tray icons don't appear. But you are right.
xrandr shows me another output than under nouveau. Switching to the correct output (the name given by xrandr)  reenables my tray.

Thanks a lot. Problem Solved and you helped a lot.