#1041765 nextcloud-desktop: Tray icon no longer works with gnome + indicator extension

Package:
nextcloud-desktop
Source:
nextcloud-desktop
Description:
Nextcloud folder synchronization tool
Submitter:
Ralf Jung
Date:
2025-08-18 10:27:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1041765#5
Date:
2023-07-23 08:59:42 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

since installing nextcloud-desktop 3.9, the systray icon no longer works as expected in Gnome (with the AppIndicator extension):
it shows shows three white dots instead of the nextcloud icon.
Nextcloud shows everything as fully synced, so I am fairly sure that these are the three dots Gnome shows when it cannot find the icon.
However, I am not sure why the icon can no longer be found -- it used to work fine before I did a big "apt upgrade" yesterday.

Here's another report of the same problem, with a screenshot:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nextcloud-client-icon-is-not-showing-correctly/138545

Kind regards,
Ralf

#1041765#10
Date:
2023-10-08 14:04:39 UTC
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The problem is inside the AppIdicator extension than in Nextcloud.
I found several issues pointing to gnome shell extension.

Regards,

hefee

#1041765#21
Date:
2023-10-08 14:04:39 UTC
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The problem is inside the AppIdicator extension than in Nextcloud.
I found several issues pointing to gnome shell extension.

Regards,

hefee

#1041765#26
Date:
2023-10-09 07:47:54 UTC
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Well, it works fine for other apps though (Zoom, for example). So the issue is some bad interaction between nextcloud and the appindicator extension, and further investigation is needed to determine where the bug lies.

Kind regards,
Ralf

#1041765#31
Date:
2025-08-18 10:23:58 UTC
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The issue doesn't seem to be with the app indicator extension - or at least not solely. When running the Nextcloud client as AppImage, be it the latest 3.17 or 3.16.6 from [1], the indicator is showing up properly. Though I can't tell what exactly the difference is between the app image and how Debian compiled it.


Best regards

Richard


[1]: https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/desktop/releases/