Tray does not appears on Linux

[remss]

The tray example does not work on Linux. The tray is not shown.
Tested with atom-shell 0.22.3 + Ubuntu 14 and atom-shell 0.22.3 + Debian Jessi

var app = require('app');
var Menu = require('menu');
var Tray = require('tray');

var appIcon = null;

app.on('ready', function(){
  appIcon = new Tray('icon.png');
  var contextMenu = Menu.buildFromTemplate([
    { label: 'Item1', type: 'radio' },
    { label: 'Item2', type: 'radio' },
    { label: 'Item3', type: 'radio', checked: true },
    { label: 'Item4', type: 'radio' },
  ]);
  appIcon.setToolTip('This is my application.');
  appIcon.setContextMenu(contextMenu);
});

[anaisbetts]

Tray has been working for us, though whether the tray icon actually shows up is super distro-specific (some distros don't allow tray icons at all)

[remss]

I agree that it is distro specific, but atom-shell doc says that Tray is supported on Linux with AppIndicator or GTK => https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/blob/master/docs/api/tray.md
So i think this is a bug because both Ubutu 14 and Debian Jessi use AppIndicator.

[zcbenz]

Yeah it supports app indicator, and it used to work on Ubuntu 14.04, it seems to be a regression.

[davej]

Can confirm, also experiencing this issue on Ubuntu 14.04.

[sergiopvilar]

I'm having this issue in Electron 0.29.2

[alexandrkazah]

I'm having an issue in Electron 0.29.1 when trying to initialise tray, give me following error "A JavaScript error occured in the browser process
Uncaught Exception:
TypeError: Error processing argument 0.
at TypeError (native)
at EventEmitter. (/Users/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxx/first-electron-app/main.js:34:13)
at emitOne (events.js:82:20)
at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:169:7)"
Line 34 in "main.js" is the initialisation line. Here it is ("appIcon = new Tray('file://' + __dirname + '/tree.png');"
Any help would be much appreciated.

[alexandrkazah]

Found the problem I had. When creating a new Tray it does not recognise the path I put in the argument. I had to use 'path' module to load the location of the image for the icon.
I.e.: var iconIdle = path.join(__dirname, 'images', 'tree.png');
appIcon = new Tray(iconIdle);
Then it works.

[sergiopvilar]

I need to install libappindicator1 to get the tray working, is that right?

[alexandrkazah]

sergiovilar, no you do not need it at all, only "tray".

[sergiopvilar]

@alexandrkazah unfortunately I had to install libappindicator1 on Ubuntu 14.04+ to get the Tray working.

[zcbenz]

@sergiovilar Yeah the libappindicator1 has to be installed to make Tray working on Ubuntu, thanks for finding it out!

[sergiopvilar]

@zcbenz any clue to get the Tray working on Debian 8? The Tray doesn't appear even with libappindicator1 installed.