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Title: KDE System tray icons problem
MaCroX95 19 Jan 2017
Hey guys I've recently switched to KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop and I have a few questions for experienced KDE users.

1. When I click or double-click on system tray icons (example: Discord or Deluge) nothing happens, I need to right click and then "open Discord" to actually open it.

2. When I do it the second way and have chrome in fullscreen mode opened and open discord from the background, the chrome stays on the top and discord window actually stays in the bacground so I have to manually bring it forward by clicking on the taskbar.

EDIT: If anyone has the 2nd problem, it is easily solved by going to settings >> Window management >> Window behavior and in the window focus tab set the Focus stealing prevention to NONE. If anyone has a solution for the first problem, it would be still greatly appreciated!
subdiff 20 Jan 2017
I don't have a workaround for you right now, but I created a bug report on your behalf: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375351

Let's see if it's somehow fixable in general.
MaCroX95 20 Jan 2017
Quoting: subdiffI don't have a workaround for you right now, but I created a bug report on your behalf: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375351

Let's see if it's somehow fixable in general.
Thanks! Hopefully things will be fixed eventually :)
subdiff 2 Feb 2017
Just a follow up: I wrote a workaround for your first complaint with https://phabricator.kde.org/R120:5d5518455d10406292495c6e6874eeeb7c4534f1

Sadly I can only give you the context menu, which you would also find by right clicking, since the Steam Linux client uses Ubuntu's tray icon API, which only supports this behaviour and not raising the window directly.

But it's better than the icon not reacting at all on a left click.
MaCroX95 2 Feb 2017
Quoting: subdiffJust a follow up: I wrote a workaround for your first complaint with https://phabricator.kde.org/R120:5d5518455d10406292495c6e6874eeeb7c4534f1

Sadly I can only give you the context menu, which you would also find by right clicking, since the Steam Linux client uses Ubuntu's tray icon API, which only supports this behaviour and not raising the window directly.

But it's better than the icon not reacting at all on a left click.
How about the discord? Does it also just raise the menu I would get from right-clicking the menu? I've switched DE for the time until they fix the tray icons.
Liam Dawe 2 Feb 2017
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Just a note, it seems the bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375351 has been marked as resolved with a commit. Looks like if we stay up to date (yay Arch ftw) we will get the fix sometime :)

Edit: In fact, was that fix from you?
subdiff 2 Feb 2017
Quoting: MaCroX95How about the discord? Does it also just raise the menu I would get from right-clicking the menu? I've switched DE for the time until they fix the tray icons.
Yes, only the menu. Is this somewhat different on other DEs? I assumed it's on every DE this way, since Discord also uses the Ubuntu API.

Quoting: liamdaweEdit: In fact, was that fix from you?
Yup. ;)
MaCroX95 2 Feb 2017
Quoting: subdiff
Quoting: MaCroX95How about the discord? Does it also just raise the menu I would get from right-clicking the menu? I've switched DE for the time until they fix the tray icons.
Yes, only the menu. Is this somewhat different on other DEs? I assumed it's on every DE this way, since Discord also uses the Ubuntu API.

Quoting: liamdaweEdit: In fact, was that fix from you?
Yup. ;)
Ubuntu's unity has such interface yes :) Cinnamon, XFCE on the other hand have interfaces where you can single-click the icon and the window pops up, it would be really nice to have such functionality, but I guess if it's not possible I'll stick to Cinnamon for the time-being. I mean the tray is one of the most crucial things for my desktop usage since it really eases the workflow.
subdiff 2 Feb 2017
Quoting: MaCroX95Ubuntu's unity has such interface yes :) Cinnamon, XFCE on the other hand have interfaces where you can single-click the icon and the window pops up[...]
I asked this question [here](https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/143388511231437926/) beforehand and some user with XFCE said, that it opens the context menu on for him. So this is not true for XFCE, are you sure?
MaCroX95 3 Feb 2017
Quoting: subdiff
Quoting: MaCroX95Ubuntu's unity has such interface yes :) Cinnamon, XFCE on the other hand have interfaces where you can single-click the icon and the window pops up[...]
I asked this question [here](https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/143388511231437926/) beforehand and some user with XFCE said, that it opens the context menu on for him. So this is not true for XFCE, are you sure?
100% sure, at least for electron apps like Skype for Linux alpha, Discord and Wmail... Why would I lie about that? xD
subdiff 4 Feb 2017
Ok, so that on XFCE it opens the window directly only applies to Discord (and other electron apps) and not Steam, right?
MaCroX95 5 Feb 2017
Quoting: subdiffOk, so that on XFCE it opens the window directly only applies to Discord (and other electron apps) and not Steam, right?
Yeah, correct :) Steam just has the menu for both left and right click, however majority of other apps have left click to open app.
yochaigal 3 Jun 2017
Has this been resolved for any of you guys? My Arch KDE setup (5.10.0) still doesn't allow open on left-click for apps like Discord, Slack.
MaCroX95 3 Jun 2017
Quoting: yochaigalHas this been resolved for any of you guys? My Arch KDE setup (5.10.0) still doesn't allow open on left-click for apps like Discord, Slack.
On KDE 5.10 the issue has been partially resolved.

The issues arose from the fact that all of those apps were still using the old legacy tray system which newer Plasma desktop doesn't support. Their response to the issue seems to have been to actually merge the function of left and right click, so now it opens the tray menu for the application, which honestly does the job for me, since everything else about Plasma desktop seems to be functioning that well.

And about the no.2 problem in my original post when Windows would open in background when clicking open in the tray, that is only related to focus stealing settings under the System settings --> Window management --> Window behavior --> Focus tab, it needs to be set to "none".
yochaigal 3 Jun 2017
Interesting - I don't have this behavior. Left-clicking (single or double) on the discord icon for instance doesn't open a menu, or the app.
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