Chrome (35+) System Tray Issues and KDE

Sudhir Khanger sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com
Fri Jun 13 17:29:18 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> wrote:
> I haven't noticed any issues with using Klipper with Chrome, not with Chrome
> 35 and I'm currently running 37.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Sudhir Khanger <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> wrote:
>> > Thanks Kevin.  After reading your note here:
>> >
>> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196343.html
>> >
>> > and
>> >
>> >
>> > http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/03/system-tray-in-plasma-next/
>> >
>> > I decided to forgo the legacy method addressed by 267195 and go ahead
>> > and
>> > install libappindicator so I'd start using the status notifier method;
>> > since
>> > that is where we're all going to end up anyway.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>> >> > My understanding is that KDE5/PlasmaNext will *drop* support for the
>> >> > legacy XEmbed-based system tray protocol, which means that if you are
>> >> > depending on 267195 to show system tray icons, it won't work.  I also
>> >> > understand that F21 will be using KDE5/PlasmaNext.
>> >>
>> >> FYI, the current plan is that F21 will be providing Plasma 5
>> >> (apparently,
>> >> that's now the official name) only in an unofficial add-on repository
>> >> (in
>> >> Copr and/or on kde-redhat), and it will only become the default in F22.
>> >>
>> >>         Kevin Kofler
>> >>
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>> Gerald,
>>
>> Have you noticed any discrepancy while copy-pasting to and from Chrome
>> using Klipper? Aura doesn't seem like behaving properly under Linux.
>> It sometimes copies and sometimes it doesn't.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sudhir Khanger.
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Icons have started showing after installing libappindicator but
without the correct icons as per the bug report. I am still using the
Chrome Stable.

Another problem I am having is that the Chrome won't start
automatically anymore. There is no autostart file. Do you have this
problem?

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