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amule-2.3.3: tray icon not working on wayland #410

@pacho2

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@pacho2

Hello,

With the actual moves to wayland, I tried to give it a shot and I noticed that amule tray icon was not being shown at all on Gnome + https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator extension. This is because amule is using the old XEmbed tray icon and, while it still works with the gnome-shell extension on X11, it does not on wayland systems.

For working in wayland, it seems that amule would need to migrate to the appindicator tray icons:
https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-appindicator

Other option (a workaround) could be to modify the provided .desktop file to force amule to be run in x11 mode:

GDK_BACKEND=x11 amule

In that way, amule will simply rely on xwayland and it will get its old tray icon properly handed.

Thanks

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