Pamac Tray Icon missing in Cinnamon under Wayland

[username227]

Hi,

I've noticed that the pamac tray icon does not show up in Cinnamon when using a Wayland session. There have been similar reports for Wayland with gnome but they go back around 7-8 years.
Is there any way to get the tray icon to work with Cinnamon in a Wayland session?

[yochananmarqos]

Wayland is still very experimental with Cinnamon and bugs are expected.

Either way, make sure you have pamac-gtk installed instead of pamac-gtk3. The former is actively developed whilst the latter is legacy and may or may not receive any further updates in the future.

[username227]

I'm using pamac-full from the AUR. there is a pamac-gtk3 package which I am not using; there is no pamac-gtk package.

[yochananmarqos]

There's no such package as pamac-full. Did you mean pamac-all that depends on libpamac-full?

Manjaro does not officially support the Pamac AUR packages as we have no control over them. Official Pamac PKGBUILDs are on the Manjaro GitLab.

Keep in mind the AUR is neither officially supported by Arch nor Manjaro.

Having said that, I was just making sure you were using the current version using Libadwaita with Gtk4 as opposed to the legacy Libhandy version using Gtk3.

[username227]

Out of interest, I tried it your way. Built the packages libpamac, pamac, and pamac-cli from your pkgbuilds (had to get rid of pacman-mirrors dependency for libpamac, since there is no such package on vanilla arch. In any case, the icon is still missing from Cinnamon in a wayland session. I agree that wayland is still experimental on cinnamon, whether this is a ciinnamon problem or a pamac problem is way beyond my knowledge.

I do believe based on troubleshooting that i've done with some other programs that the taskbar in cinnamon works differently than in kde; betterbird doesn't have full cinnamon taskbar support, for example. And, of course, minimizing works differently in wayland, so kdocker doesn't work to put things in the taskbar as it does on x.

In any case, is there any command I could run to get more verbose output when i start pamac-tray on wayland to try to figure out what's going on?