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msl09

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Registered: 2022-10-01

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[SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

I removed some old packages with pacman -Rsc xfce4 mousepad rygel and after rebooting an icon from kde's system tray is gone, I thought I wasn't removing anything from kde while reviewing the log from pacman but it seems I was wrong.

Do you guys have any suggestions on how to fix that issue? Is there a way to reinstall plasma-meta and all its dependencies? Would that work?

Last edited by msl09 (2025-12-17 16:45:55)

WayfarerCodes

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

After a quick look at pacman's man page, it looks like the -c remove option might be to blame. I wouldn't recommend using it when you're removing packages. Simply reinstalling plasma-meta with pacman -S plasma-meta should bring in all of its dependencies as well, but you should take a close look at the logs to see if anything non-KDE related got uninstalled too.

For future reference, I highly recommend reading up on commands like this before you use them.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

What /is/ that "icon"? (Ie. what does/did it trigger)

Since the cascade - which is rarely a good idea - didn't remove plasma, re-installing plasma will not drag in that thing as hard dependency.
Edit: you can also inspect /var/log/pacman.log to see what was actually removed

Last edited by seth (2025-12-17 09:22:21)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

I ran into this and seems to be a side effect of the kweather update to 25.12 ... technically it has a specific plasmoid which is only really intended as a desktop widget but for some reason it's marked as systray compatible and doesn't really have an icon to display in that case. Technically a KDE bug that one might want to report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513262 , but you can also just edit your tray settings and configure the "KWeather_1x4" entry to be disabled. Technically the icon isn't gone it's "new", but wrong

Last edited by V1del (2025-12-17 11:12:10)

msl09

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

I wouldn't recommend using it when you're removing packages.

Yeah I didn't want to run it either but pacman -Rsu xfce4 selected almost no packages so I thought going with the nuclear option would be better as long as I reviewed the packages being uninstalled.

"KWeather_1x4"

Oh thanks! That's exactly the name that appears when I hover the cursor over it. I'll check the bug report.

Thanks everyone!

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke an icon in the kde's system tray :(

\o/
Technically

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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