I have a minor gripe about the IceWM taskbar and Discord…

[Member r_chase]

Long story short, Discord has its own tray thing…but I’m not sure how to get it to show up on the default taskbar. It feels weird asking this… but is there a way to fix it? Apologies in advance btw. Thanks.

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I just installed discord-canary following the site instructions, and after launching it automatically appears on the system tray on fluxbox. It should do th exact same on icewm.

What are your symptoms?

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r_chase wrote:

Discord has its own tray thing…

We are assuming you are talking about a system tray icon, is that correct?
And what antiX desktop are you running? The default is rox-icewm… That is your “default taskbar” right? (just checking)
I never used Discord, but some applications have a menu option to show or hide the system tray icon- please make sure that, if Discord has that setting, it is allowing the tray icon to be displayed.
Also you may be expecting Discord to launch automatically at start up… If that is the case, you may need to add it to your start up file (the tray icon should appear in the system tray after you start Discord manually)
Do other icons appear in you system tray (like volume, etc?)

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I honestly don’t know, but it seems that when I right-click the supposed tray icon, it doesn’t show the “Top Secret Control Panel” that allows me to quit Discord so I can free up RAM/CPU space when I want to. Instead it shows a different menu. Also, closing the app doesn’t actually quit the app. It just puts it in the background or something like that. So, I must be doing something wrong.

I’m on antiX 19 SysVinit edition btw.

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Back on icewm

I had no problem launching from terminal
discord-canary
or from App select.

I didn’t log in (no account), just the open window. I can see the discord white icon in the systemtray. I can right-click with the wndow opened or closed, and see the right-click menu, where I can select “Quit DiscordCanary”, which stops discord.

I don’t know if it is different when logged in, but it works for me on antiX on icewm.
Is you system 32 bits? Do you have an nvidia driver or a problematic graphics card that may have problems rendering the right-click menu?

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I’m on a ThinkPad X140e. It’s 64-bit. Also, running it in the terminal showed that something hiccuped.

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I might still need help. Forgive me for bumping this thread, but I’ll give more details here now.

My CPU is an AMD and my GPU is also an AMD. Both are pretty old too.
CPU: A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
GPU: Radeon HD 8330

Again, my computer model is ThinkPad X140e

Also, my OS is antiX 19.4 64-bit SysVinit Edition.

I do apologize for not making it any clearer. I need to work on that.

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I checked it now on live USB, and now I understand what you are talking about. I forgot I was using the desktop-session-antix version of antiX21 on antiX-19, which has a new dbus-launch option.

Try launching discord from the terminal with this command
dbus-launch discord
and see if the icon appears in the systray. If it does, right-click it to see the context menu. If right-click doesn’t work, try left-click.
You could add the same dbu-launch command inside the Exec option in /usr/share/applications/discord.desktop and refresh the menus with
sudo /usr/local/bin/desktop-menu --write-out-global
so that it will launch with dbus support from the menus.

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Thanks, but quick question: do I have my hard-drive-installed antiX on Live mode or something. Because I wonder if I can change that somehow so I can sudo properly or whatever (e.g. sudo nano something outside of the home partition).

P.S.: I may have created a copy of the discord.desktop file and put it in the Desktop folder of my home partition. However I feel it’s a temporary fix until I figure out my way out of “live” mode.

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