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Roberto Leinardi
Asked: 2018-09-30 06:21:10 +0800 CST

Missing indicator/tray icons (Steam, Chrome, Dropbox, etc)

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On my installations of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 all the indicator icons from Chrome, Dropbox, Ulauncher, InSync and Steam are missing. These are the indicator currently installed: enter image description here

And these are the Gnome extensions installed: enter image description here

Looking Glass shows no error for the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator: enter image description here

indicator gnome-shell gnome-shell-extension

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  1. Best Answer

    The problem was having Unity and its indicators installed. After removing completely Unity and all its indicators the icons are back:

    enter image description here

    This is the list of the package with "indicator" in the name you should have installed:

    $ apt list --installed | grep indicator    

gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/cosmic,cosmic,now 22-1 all [installed]
libappindicator1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libappindicator3-1/cosmic,now 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libindicator3-7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libindicator7/cosmic,now 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
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