skype systray icon wrong after suspend/resume

[Lasse Kliemann]

Skype's systray icon is shown correctly at first. However, after suspend/resume, it changes into a kind of "keep out" sign, as shown in the attached screenshot. This wrong icon will stay there until a restart of Skype.

I am not sure whether this is a problem in Skype or the desktop environment.

Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10

Actually, I am running the 'devel' version of Ubuntu. I have not checked other versions.

skype:
  Installed: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Candidate: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu devel/partner amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Update: the icon breaks the moment that the screen is locked.

People are reporting similar issues with other applications too: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2340265

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[Paul White (paulw2u)]

For now assigning this against skype as leaving the report assigned to Ubuntu project in general will probably see little action taken.

[stan383 (stan383)]

I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 and the issue is present also for me (and according to the posts on ubuntu forums, affects many other user) and is not related just to Skype indicator icon, but for me the same issue is present for Owncloud indicator icon as well. The issue can be reproduced also by lock of the screen, then unlock and the Icons are gone - instead of the skype and ownlocud indicator icon, there is a black rectangle icon with a red sign.

[stan383 (stan383)]

I found another bug which describes the same issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1635625

[David Gommeren (david-gommeren)]

Also "Radio Tray" suffers from the same problem. Closing an app which has a corrupted icon restores the icons again (in my case).

For example:
- "Skype" & "Radio Tray" running with proper icons
- Lock screen (icons visually turn to wrong icon before screen is locked, ie. during fade)
- Unlock screen
- Close "Radio Tray"
- Icon for Skype is normal again

[Reny (reny1977)]

for me the icons affected are: ownclowd desktop, MEGA, CLementine sound player, skype

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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