[Solved] AwesomeWM tray icons

s0l1dsnak3123 · 2014-11-05 17:09:22

Hey there,

I've been using awesomeWM for some time, but one thing I've always had troubles with is the systray.

Systray

The systray in the above image has four icons - dropbox, hipchat, google chrome and google hangouts. However for some reason, wibox.widget.systray() piles the icons on top of themselves. I've always had this problem regardless of what my rc.lua looks like.

Does anybody know what could be causing this?

Last edited by s0l1dsnak3123 (2014-11-06 00:12:25)

drelyn86 · 2014-11-05 21:38:03

So my rc.lua still isn't too far from the default, but I have those same icons, plus clipit and nm-applet with no issues. With that said, I'm not sure that there's much you can do to affect the behavior of wibox.widget.systray unless you have something else in your rc.lua that is perhaps overloading the systray:draw or systray:fit functions.

Last edited by drelyn86 (2014-11-05 21:42:43)

s0l1dsnak3123 · 2014-11-05 23:59:23

Well you can see my rc.lua file here: https://gist.github.com/johnhamelink/0d … 6907ed4eb3

Speaking as a lua newbie, is it possible I have an out of date version of the wibox lib? How is it packaged in arch?

awesome v3.5.5 (Kansas City Shuffle)
 • Build: Apr 11 2014 09:36:33 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.8.2 (nobody@)
 • Compiled against Lua 5.2.3 (running with Lua 5.2)
 • D-Bus support: ✔

damjan · 2014-11-06 00:02:15

Hipchat probably does something stupid/non-compliant and awesome doesn't handle that too good.
In my case the hipchat icon is drawn over my xxkb label.

s0l1dsnak3123 · 2014-11-06 00:12:12

@damjan, yes you were right >_>

http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-s … er_page=20

drelyn86 · 2014-11-06 01:12:21

Weird. I did not have that issue today (coincidentally I just started testing hipchat for work today). I ended up uninstalling and going with the web client due to sound not working... but that's unrelated to this thread.

s0l1dsnak3123 · 2014-11-06 01:31:18

I reckon it's to do with the width/height of the icon

krypsin · 2015-01-26 22:07:17

Did OP find the solution to this? Am having the same issue myself, however the Dropbox icon is in correct order in my systray but still has white background.

s0l1dsnak3123 · 2015-01-26 22:08:39

I never did find a direct solution unfortunately

Talkerbox · 2015-10-17 19:41:04

Sorry, I'am not Arch'er, But this is only one place, where discussing this problem.

Have this problem too on debian jessie with this awesome:

awesome v3.5.6 (For Those About To Rock)
• Build: Jun 5 2015 06:28:50 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.9.2 (root@minjo)
• Compiled against Lua 5.1.5 (running with Lua 5.1)
• D-Bus support: ✔

It's sadly (

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