keepassx isn't shown in indicator-applet

when keepassx minimize to tray using unity desktop, tray icon is not shown

if login with Ubuntu classic interface, the tray icon can be displayed

This is by design.
There is however a whitelist to which you could add keepassx.

Why, for instance, skype doesn't have this "feature" by design? I can see skype tray icon as usual (before unity).

In keepassx, if minimizing to tray icon is enabled when clicking on close or minimize buttons, the application disappears and you must kill it in terminal and reopen it. If you have unsaved passwords, you loose them.

Where can I change this whitelist?

Thank you

Maybe keepassx can add themself to this whitelist when installing?

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 07:15:33 (CEST), Yuriy Vidineev wrote:

> Maybe keepassx can add themself to this whitelist when installing?

hardly, as this is a per-user local setting and e.g. wouldn't affect
users created after installation of the package

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The linked branch adds keepassx to the default whitelist in unity.

The problem here is a bug in keepassx that uses the deprecated systray. It should change to appindicators API (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators).

I'm almost sure the change to whitelist keepassx will not be approved and merged.

The currently whitelisted apps (Java, Mumble, Wine, Skype and hp-systray) is whitelisted only because the necessary changes to port to appinidicator were too big (is the case of Java and Wine) and we are out of time to do them for natty or because the software is not opensource (the case o Skype).

I don't know why the other two are on whitelist. For more info, see discussion in bug #685270 and the following comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/751171/comments/2.

> The problem here is a bug in keepassx that uses the deprecated systray.
Calling that a bug is a rather bold statement as unity is the only desktop environment that has removed support for classic system tray icons and at the same time does not provide a way to detect that.
I doubt that a keepassx tray icon using the new protocol would be useful on unity since it doesn't allow showing the application on left-click.

> I don't know why the other two are on whitelist.
Mumble is whitelisted because it's heavily used by Canonical and there is no StatusNotifierItem implementation for Qt yet.

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 21:40:54 (CEST), Marco Biscaro wrote:

> The problem here is a bug in keepassx that uses the deprecated systray.
> It should change to appindicators API (see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators).

The list on the cited wiki page does not point to a library for plain
QT4 applications. How are QT4 applications such as keepassx supposed to
implement Application Indicators?

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Sorry, I didn't realize that keepassx is written using Qt.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators. Use libappindicator.

Reopening the bug, Alex there is no binding for Qt allowing to use indicators yet and that's a valid issue in natty

Identical Problem.

I've tried manually adding 'keepassx' to the whitelist per the patch, and still don't actually seem to get the applet in the panel.

Try adding 'Keepassx'.
Works here.

i have a similar problem with KeepassX and systray. At first it won't pop-up. Adding it to the white-list solves the problem. Yet, when I add keepassx to my startup application, the first instance (i.e. the instance that is started automatically) does not appear in the systray. All the next instances do. Any idea how I can solve this?

I can confirm that the keepassx icon disappears. currently I cannot get it all.
Hopefully it will work after a restart again.

Attached you find a strace.

the issue should be fixed with sni-qt on Oneiric

I still can confirm that issue, with the lastest versions. (Like sni-qt: 0.2.5-0ubuntu3) How can I triage it? Otherwise, when will we have it published?

Added 'all' to the whitelist, no keepassx as expected. Running 12.04.

If you really want to use the keepassx tray icon on unity, start it likes this:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP= keepassx