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gtarch

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Registered: 2022-10-14

Posts: 49

element-desktop stopped showing tray icon

Since upgrading to electron 43.4.0 the tray icon stopped appearing.
I filed a bug report upstream (https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/34709), but it was rejected, because they don't support the Arch package.
I'm not registered in SSO (I have requested a whitelist) so I can't report the problem to the Arch maintainers.

Does anyone else face the problem? Is there anything I can do to trace it?

Artlav

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Registered: 2016-07-11

Posts: 37

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Re: element-desktop stopped showing tray icon

Got the same issue after a recent update.
XFCE, element-desktop 1.12.24-1, electron43 43.4.0-1.

Not sure if it's related, but at the same time i also started having a problem where clicking on any notification would open Viber (if it's already running) along with whatever program the notification was from.

SvenDotTo

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 1

Re: element-desktop stopped showing tray icon

I have the same issue. I reported it to the Arch maintainers:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … k_items/37

lucasblake

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Registered: 2026-09-02

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Re: element-desktop stopped showing tray icon

I’d first check whether this is specific to Electron 43.x or to the Arch package itself. Electron’s Linux tray implementation uses StatusNotifierItem when available, so a change in the Electron/desktop integration can make the icon disappear even though Element itself is still running.

There have also been previous Element reports of missing tray icons on Linux, including Arch/KDE, so you’re definitely not the first person to hit this class of problem. I’d compare the Arch package against the upstream/bundled Electron build and run Element from a terminal to capture stderr. Checking the Plasma tray/StatusNotifier service and trying another desktop session would also help narrow down whether it’s Electron or the desktop environment.

One particularly useful test would be temporarily downgrading Electron to the previous Arch package version. If the tray immediately returns, that gives you a very strong regression point to include in an Arch bug report.