Missing tray icon

[Sparhawk]

After running qjoypad, there is no icon in the system tray. I can click on the empty space, which works.

Another person has the same issue in Gentoo: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7145492.html

(Also, qjoypad requires better instructions on how to launch it. I launched it without the icon mode. In both cases, I kept right-clicking it, which gives a menu, but no further options. I didn't think to left-click.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: qjoypad 4.1.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu May 1 22:45:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-16 (501 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
SourcePackage: qjoypad
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-02 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sparhawk (sparhawkthesecond)]

Similarly, qjoypad has no desktop icon.

/usr/share/applications/kde4/qjoypad.desktop references a non-existent icon, i.e.
    Icon=qjoypad

To fix, change this line to
    Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gamepad4-64x64.png

(This doesn't affect the original bug.)

[Jordan Metzmeier (titan8990)]

These bugs do not exist in the package that is in Debian. I am guessing that the package wasn't there at the time 14.04 was frozen. Pulling in the Debian package instead of the one only maintained in Ubuntu should resolve this for the next release.

[Sparhawk (sparhawkthesecond)]

I've moved to Arch, and I also cannot see these bugs in qjoypad on this platform.

FWIW I've moved to antimicro, a fork of qjoypad, since this is no longer maintained.

[Wes Ossi (ossi-alpha-66)]

This is not a bug only a very weird ubuntu not having a system tray issue. the fact is that this program was intended to be used just like (example. When you click on the Wi-Fi status icon, and then a small menu pops up. Thats it.) If your like me and you saw a picture of the settings GUI. And then you install software. Made sure you had all the dependencies. And then after you click on icon nothing happends..
Well Look No More. All you have to do is open terminal. And type.

qjoypad --notray

Then the enter key.. And it might come back with one line of code. But a GUI window will pop up. Keep terminal open click on GUI of controller icon. And thank disco dingo for trying to be like win10.and then win10 for trying to be like an ipad interface. Then use qjoypad....thats it took me hours to figure this crap out.