gnome shell stops showing appindicators

[fcole90]

When I start applications like telegram, steam or dropbox, I'm used to see an appindicator icon to show it's running in the background. This doesn't happen in gnome-shell on Artful.

On Xenial it was working correctly for me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 20 10:38:45 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-21 (851 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150321)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-07-18 (1 days ago)

[fcole90 (fcole90)]

Update: rebooting made the indicator appear correctly. After locking the session they're gone again. I'm not using Wayland.

[fcole90 (fcole90)]

I'm using the Topicons Plus extension. Disabling it doesn't make the indicators appear again, so I suppose it's not related.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I believe Gnome Shell puts app indicator icons in a hidden tray in the bottom left of the screen. Try moving your mouse down there. And if they don't appear, try also reverting your custom launcher because that might be preventing the icons from revealing themselves. Please also try with the default Ubuntu theme...

[fcole90 (fcole90)]

I'm no longer experiencing this, so maybe an update solved the issue.