XChat icon disappear from gnome-shell systray when clic on notification

[dada]

Hi,

I encounter a bug using gnome-shell under Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.4.2 and under Ubuntu 12.10 with gnome 3.6.0.

When the irc client XChat is in the systray and annouce a private message, clicking on the systray notification will remove xchat icon instead of opening the xchat window. So it is impossible to access the xchat application.

But XChat is still running as man can see for instance:

$ ps aux | grep xchat
user 13613 0.2 0.4 170904 28432 ? Sl 18:50 0:45 xchat

$ xwininfo -name xchat
xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400001 "xchat"
...

If i open a new session of xchat my irc user is still connected.

I don't know if there is a problem with the gnome-shell systray notification or xchat dbus management or something else?

Regards

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

If you using the plain xchat and not xchat-gnome, you should be able to fix this by tweaking the alerts preferences.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[François Perruchas (francoisperruchas)]

I think this bug is affecting not only xchat, I have a similar behaviour with radiotray and dropbox.

When dropbox or radiotray displays a notification, if i close it right away the behaviour is the one expected, but if i miss it and then i open the message tray, i click on radiotray or dropbox, i see the notification, if i click on it or i close it, radiotray or dropbox icon disappears from message tray, even if it's still running on background. Then the only solution to control it is to kill it and start a new instance to have the icon back in the message tray.

I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 3.10 with gnome3 PPA. Should I have to fill a new bug ?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.
And Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]