Re: System Tray Icons are invisible or wrong.

Skippyboy wrote:
Has anyone else seen or heard of this odd issue? (Using opensuse 11.1,
KDE4.3.0)

I have a system tray "plasmoid/widget" (whatever it is called) on the
panel at the bottom of the screen, and it has been exhibiting some
strange behavior.

KMix, Klipper, and opensuse-updater icons all appear as normal. BUT -
if more icons are added to the system tray, they either are blank
squares, or a copy of the icon to the left.

The offending icons so far are KNetworkManager, Pidgin, VMware and I
also tried wicd (to see if it was just knetworkmanager). When I hover
the mouse over the blank (or copied icon) and right click, the
appropriate menu items appear. It just seems so odd that they show up
as blank squares, or copies.

It is almost as if the system tray is one count off for the icons.

some helpless, out-on-the-bleeding-edge creature asked a similar
question in the openSUSE forum yesterday...perhaps the answers he gets
will help you too, ;-) see:

http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=421983

personally, i think all he needs to do is stop running "factory" code
as it which might change every 15 minutes...sometimes the change is
good, sometimes it breaks stuff..and, the only fix is waiting for the
fix to be in the next changed code at factory..

of course, you and he may have discovered a bug that is connected to
the graphics chip you both have...if that is true then one or both of
you need to log a bug in the system so it can be found and killed..

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 3.0.1-1.1, KDE 3.5.7,
openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
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