QSystemTrayIcon in Linux

SujaMM

I'm working in an app that creates a TrayIcon on the system, it's working perfectly on Windows but it's not showing in linux. I'm not sure if it's the version of linux. I left here the code I'm ussing.

 if (QSystemTrayIcon::isSystemTrayAvailable()) {
    trayIcon = new QSystemTrayIcon(this);
    trayIcon->setIcon(QIcon(":/Imagenes/iconosPERFQ-23.png"));
    trayIcon->setToolTip(tr("PerfQ Client"));
    trayIcon->setVisible(true);
    connect(trayIcon, SIGNAL(activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)),
                 this, SLOT(iconActivated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)));
}

SGaist

Hi,

Did you check whether isSystemTrayAvailable returns false ?

If not, what distribution are you using ?

mrdebug

I have a similar problem. The tray icon in Linux is shown in the top left corner instead of the right bottom corner, if I run the application as normal user. That happens on Debian 7.
On Windows and Mac all well.

XPlatforms

@mrdebug do you use KDE? Have saw same issue on KDE4 Desktop using Qt4 apps.

@SujaMM Which Linux distribution do you use and which Desktop environment?

mrdebug

Debian 7 with kde 4.8.4
But if I run my application from user console as root user by sux, the tray icon will be right, in the bottom right corner of the screen.

? Offline

Hi everyone,
this bug is fixed in Qt 5.5.0 Alpha; see: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-31762

SujaMM

The trayIcon it's only apearing when I run the runable create in the build folder, how ever it dosen't show when I run it on Qt Creator or from the terminal.
The other problem it's that I detroy the trayicon when I close each window and create a new one to avoid having a buch of trayicons in the system tray. But this it's not working in linux.