Systray icon missing / empty

[Anard]

Hi. When backintime is recording a snapshot, I have no information about it.
Should it be possible that when taking a snapshot an icon with progress bar appears in the notification bar ?
OS : Gentoo 2.7, profile amd64/17.1/desktop
DE : Xfce 4.16
Kernel : 5.15.26

PS : thx to emtiu for taking this project alive back 👍

[gsker]

I'm surprised you don't.
Thanks for the desktop details.
Can you say how you are running the snapshot?
A scheduled job? Manually via the GUI? Command line? As your regular user? Or as root?
The icon changes based on my theme, but this is what it looks like now in my daily desktop (NOT Xfce4)

The 3.5" diskette icon is the backintime backup running.

My tray is trayer And running from an at job as root I see this in my ps output:

• root 8219 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 python3 -Es /usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py --profile-id 2 backup-job
  root 8229 8219 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/backintime/qt/qtsystrayicon.py 2

I am not logged in as root though -- so the system did something as to figure out where my X11 desktop was.

I have xfce4 4.16 installed and will try it and see if I see it there. It's not my daily environment....

Tested logged in as my regular user in xfce4 4.16 in Debian.
Here's the cron line and a manaul run sudoed to a root shell:

And the icon shows up in my panel:

[Prodeguerriero]

Hi all,

I have a similar request/question: I have just started using Back in Time on a fresh Ubuntu 21.10 install, and I set it up using the GUI to run at startup. If I open the GUI, I can see the back-up running (by looking at the log), but I don't see any system indicator telling me the job is indeed running.

If I stop the snapshot and start a new one, then the icon appears on the top right and I can interact with the job (pause, stop, etc.)

[emtiu]

I have a similar request/question: I have just started using Back in Time on a fresh Ubuntu 21.10 install, and I set it up using the GUI to run at startup. If I open the GUI, I can see the back-up running (by looking at the log), but I don't see any system indicator telling me the job is indeed running.

If I stop the snapshot and start a new one, then the icon appears on the top right and I can interact with the job (pause, stop, etc.)

Could you share a screenshot showing the problem? Do you know which desktop environment you are using?

[Prodeguerriero]

See the icon on the top right corner, that appears if I manually start a sync job. But it does not appear when I boot and the job starts automatically.

My GNOME version is 40.4.0

[Anard]

I confirm I still have no notification in taskbar when BiT takes a snapshot. Even launched by cron task, manually via GUI or manually via command line...
https://imgur.com/u2w5ZU2.png

[Anard]

One thing more, it could be interesting too to have an access to BackInTime in systray even if it's not taking a snapshot. As do TimeMachine on macOS, allowing to launch BiT or take a snapshot instantly without launching the app.

[KMouratidis]

I had this issue too (link). For me it seems to have been an issue with root's cron jobs. I fixed mine by exporting another variable in /usr/bin/backintime-qt, like this:

... LICENSE ...

#fixing gray window error
#https://launchpad.net/bugs/1493020
export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM="native"

### ADD THIS
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct


CUR_PATH="$(dirname $(readlink -m $0))"

... CODE TO LAUNCH APP ...

I also installed qt5ct but it didn't have any effect on its own. That said, I couldn't get snapshots started with root / backintime-qt_polkit to work even with that variable. It seemed like a backintime-qt_polkit or pkexec issue, but have no idea how to tell.

[Anard]

Still no systray icon but icons in BiT window disappeared (replaced by text) with this export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct