rhythmbox is running, but no indicator is shown

[Daniel Holbach]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

rhythmbox is running, but no indicator is shown

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 3 10:53:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.6-1ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686

[Jonas Pedersen (jonasped)]

Thanks for the bug report.

Can you please advise if this always happen or just sometimes that the icon is missing. On my machine it is shown. Please see attached screenshot1.png.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It's the first time I noticed it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

setting low priority since that's not something happening everytime or to lot of users

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Before we can pass it on to the developers of the patch we need to find out a bit more about the behaviour of this bug.
There is a known issue with applications having and Application Indicator that are launched on log in with the Start-up Manager to use the fall back mechanism instead of the Application Indicator because the indicator-application-service is not ready right away. If that's the bug you're experiencing, please take a look at bug #528088.

It could be that there is a bug in the code of Rhythmbox that is responsible for drawing the tray icon. Could you please attach the file ".xsession-errors" right after the bug occured? You can find this hidden file in your home directory.
Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This hasn't been happening to me for a while now.

[Bálint Magyar (balintm)]

I have been having this problem recently. .xsession-errors does not get any entries when I launch Rhythmbox. There is no visual sign of the indicator starting at all. However, I get the crash described in bug #548770 on every single launch, could it be related to this issue?

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Bálint: the crash probably has got nothing to do with this issue.
You could try to run Rhythmbox in the command line and run it with the '-d' option in order to enable the debugging mode: 'rhythmbox -d'. Maybe something will be written to the terminal.

[Andrew (keen101)]

This is now happening for me after upgrading to 10.10. This is the first time i have used rhythmbox in 10.10, so i dont know if it happens everytime.

I just reported a bug on Audacity that also is having tray problems. I think the two are related. I dont think this is a bug in rhytmbox itself, but in whatever handles the system tray.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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