Missing Cortina tray icon on Gnome

[Francisco Morales Aceves]

I've been using Cortina for a while without problems, but last night when I logged in I got a Gnome related error, to be honest I didn't read it carefully, and somehow it ended up removing the Cortina tray icon.

I reinstalled Cortina, but the icon is still missing. Cortina is running but since the icon is missing I'm not able to open the GUI so I can't add or remove wallpapers or change the settings.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition and Cortina 0.6.4. It's important to mention that this issue only happens on Gnome; on a Netbook Edition session the icon is there.

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

I don't think that this is a problem of Cortina. This sounds like a Ubuntu/Gnome related problem. You should find what you did before that issue occurs. Or Maybe you need to reinstall Ubuntu or only Gnome to fix that.

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

Please start Cortina within the shell, then you should get some debug informations.

[Francisco Morales Aceves (aceves83)]

Thank you for the feedback, how can I get the debug information? I just ran the cortina command on the shell (/usr/bin/cortina) but I didn't get any debug info... Is there a special parameter or another way to start Cortina from the shell?

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

Thats really strange, I remember now that I didn't seen the Pidgin icon in my tray for a while although it is running. I just have a empty box down there :/ seems to be another problem.

[Francisco Morales Aceves (aceves83)]

Yes It's weird, seems to be a Gnome issue, I also noticed the network tray icon is missing... But is there another way to open the GUI? or how can I get the debug information? Thank you again for your help!

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

Isn't there at least an transparent box?

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

And I forgot to say that only with something went wrong you see any debug information in the console.

[Francisco Morales Aceves (aceves83)]

Thanks for the quick response; there isn't a transparent icon, it just disappeared without a trace :p

So all points out to be a Gnome issue, I'll have to find out how to fix it, anyway thanks again for your support and congrats for doing such a neat app :)

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

Thanks, hopefully you find the issue and post it here :)

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

I'm currently working on a different method to create a tray icon, this might fix your problem ;-)