Several icons stopped showing since updating to Trusty

[David Leal]

I had to enable the notification area because several icons disappeared. These include, dropbox, synaptic, nm-applet, and many others.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

David, what do you mean by "enable the notification area"? You have tagged this bug as "trusty", but as far as I know, there is no way to do that in Trusty. indicator-applet is also not shipped in Trusty.

[David Leal (dgleal)]

Matthew, sorry about the incomplete information. I forgot to mention that I'm using gnome-panel and a gnome-flashback(ish) session (xmonad + gnome). It's in that context that I'm using indicator-applet-complete. It worked fine with saucy. Now, I had to add the notification-area applet to gnome-panel (alt-right click > Add notification area).

I can see the indicator-applet package in synaptic, and it's not marked as local or obsolete. Are you sure it isn't supposed to be in trusty?

[David Leal (dgleal)]

Here's how the panel looks. See those icons that are really close together? That's because they're being shown in the notification area. The other icons (starting at indicator-keyboard) are being shown by indicator-applet-complete.

[David Leal (dgleal)]

I changed the status back to "new", since I believe I provided the information that was requested. Please let me know if I shouldn't have done that.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry, by "shipped" I meant "installed by default". Confirmed based on your screenshot.

[David Leal (dgleal)]

I believe this has been fixed now.

[David Leal (dgleal)]

Unfortunately, the problem has returned.

[David Lee (ramchyld)]

I've found that this bug has regressed and returned on the production version of Trusty Tahr. All three of my rigs (two upgraded and one fresh install) are affected.

The bug affects nm-applet and nautilus-dropbox for me.

For nm-applet, the fix involves editing /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop and changing

exec=nm-applet
to
exec=dbus-launch nm-applet

as per suggestion in http://askubuntu.com/questions/449658/networkmanager-tray-nm-applet-is-gone-after-upgrade-to-14-04-trusty

For dropbox, I taken what was mentioned in the article and changed the dropbox entry in Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart -> Dropbox from

Command: dropbox start -i
to
Command: dbus-launch dropbox start -i

It appears that with 14.04, dbus-aware programs must be started with dbus-launch instead of directly.

[David Lee (ramchyld)]

I have noticed that this issue is yet to be fixed, a recent update to nm-applet.desktop still has this issue. Please fix. You can see in my above post that the problem can be solved by using dbus-launch.