Hyprland Waybar - No System Tray Icon

[0pLuS0]

Hello,

I'm running Hyprland 0.49, waybar 0.13.0, with deadbeef 1.10.0.

When I start deadbeef there is no system tray.

Does it work in hyrpland under wayland?

Here's the ouput, by the way, why does it say;

loading plugins from /home/foo/.local/lib64/deadbeef
loading plugins from /home/foo/.local/lib/deadbeef

I don't have any plugins in ~/.local/lib

starting deadbeef 1.10.0
server_start
searching for GUI plugins in /home/foo/.local/lib64/deadbeef
searching for GUI plugins in /home/foo/.local/lib/deadbeef
searching for GUI plugins in /usr/lib/deadbeef
load_plugin_dir /usr/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 54 files
found gui plugin ddb_gui_GTK3.so
added GTK3 gui plugin
load gui plugin
checking GUI plugin: GTK3
found selected GUI plugin: GTK3
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_gui_GTK3.so
loading plugins from /home/foo/.local/lib64/deadbeef
loading plugins from /home/foo/.local/lib/deadbeef
loading plugins from /usr/lib/deadbeef
load_plugin_dir /usr/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 54 files
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/aac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/adplug.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/alac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/alsa.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/artwork.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/cdda.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/converter.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/converter_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/dca.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_dsp_libretro.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_dumb.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_mono2stereo.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_out_pw.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_shn.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_soundtouch.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/dsp_libsrc.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ffap.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ffmpeg.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/flac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/gme.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/hotkeys.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/in_sc68.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/lastfm.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/m3u.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/medialib.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/mms.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/mp3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/musepack.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/notify.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/nullout.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/opus.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/oss.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/pltbrowser_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/psf.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/pulse.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/rg_scanner.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/shellexec.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/shellexecui_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/sid.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/sndfile.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/supereq.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/tta.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vfs_curl.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vfs_zip.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vorbis.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vtx.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wavpack.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wildmidi.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wma.so
starting plugin GTK3 user interface
starting plugin AAC player
starting plugin Adplug player
starting plugin ALAC player
starting plugin ALSA output plugin
starting plugin Album Artwork
starting plugin Audio CD player
starting plugin Converter
starting plugin Converter UI
starting plugin dts decoder
starting plugin Resampler (Libretro)
starting plugin DUMB module player
starting plugin Mono to stereo
starting plugin PipeWire output plugin
starting plugin Shorten player
starting plugin Soundtouch
starting plugin Resampler (Secret Rabbit Code)
starting plugin Monkey's Audio (APE) decoder
starting plugin FLAC decoder
starting plugin Game-Music-Emu player
starting plugin Hotkey manager
starting plugin SC68 player (Atari ST SNDH YM2149)
starting plugin last.fm scrobbler
starting plugin M3U and PLS support
starting plugin Media Library
starting plugin mms vfs
starting plugin MP3 player
starting plugin MusePack decoder
starting plugin OSD Notify
starting plugin Null output plugin
starting plugin Opus player
starting plugin OSS output plugin
starting plugin Playlist Browser
starting plugin PSF player using Audio Overload SDK
starting plugin PulseAudio output plugin
starting plugin ReplayGain Scanner
starting plugin Shell commands
starting plugin Shellexec UI
starting plugin SID player
starting plugin WAV/PCM player
starting plugin SuperEQ
starting plugin tta decoder
starting plugin cURL vfs
starting plugin ZIP vfs
starting plugin Ogg Vorbis decoder
starting plugin VTX player
starting plugin WavPack decoder
starting plugin WildMidi player
starting plugin WMA player
starting plugin stdio vfs
starting plugin FFMPEG audio player
selected output plugin: ALSA output plugin
INFO: from file /home/rog/.config/deadbeef/playlists/0.dbpl
resume: track -1 pos -1.000000 playlist -1
gtkui plugin compiled for gtk version: 3.24.49

(deadbeef:63668): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:25:51.541: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
connecting button tray signals
quitting gtk
gtkui_stop completed
gui plugin has quit; waiting for mainloop thread to finish
plug_disconnect_all
plug_unload_all
Stopping async plugins...
Stopped Album Artwork...
All async plugins have stopped.
Stopping GTK3 user interface...
quitting gtk
Stopping Adplug player...
Stopping ALSA output plugin...
Stopping Converter...
Stopping dts decoder...
Stopping DUMB module player...
Stopping PipeWire output plugin...
Stopping Game-Music-Emu player...
Stopping Hotkey manager...
Stopping SC68 player (Atari ST SNDH YM2149)...
Stopping last.fm scrobbler...
Stopping Media Library...
medialib cleanup done
Stopping MusePack decoder...
Stopping OSD Notify...
Stopping Null output plugin...
Stopping OSS output plugin...
Stopping PSF player using Audio Overload SDK...
Stopping PulseAudio output plugin...
Stopping Shell commands...
Stopping SID player...
Stopping WAV/PCM player...
Stopping SuperEQ...
Stopping tta decoder...
Stopping cURL vfs...
Stopping Ogg Vorbis decoder...
Stopping VTX player...
Stopping WildMidi player...
Stopping FFMPEG audio player...
All plugins had been unloaded
messagepump_free
plug_cleanup
logger_free
💛💙

THANKS

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Does it work in hyrpland under wayland?

to my best knowledge, xembed status icons (which is what tray icons are in GTK) are not supposed to work in wayland.

[0pLuS0]

Hi @Oleksiy-Yakovenko

I had a feeling deadbeef was using xembed, which isn't supported.

I think we need Libappindicator...

Maybe in the future you can provide Wayland support.

In the meantime the deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin works, so I lucked out!

https://github.com/vovochka404/deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin

Keep up the great work, I've been a long time user of deadbeef, I really love it, just hope to see more support for it in Wayland.

This screen shot is for you @Oleksiy-Yakovenko

Take care, be well! 👍

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

I will add support for "tray icons" on linux/wayland/whatever as soon as linux desktop devs settle on a single standard for that, and provide a decent API. In the meantime, it's best to handle this via a plugin.

[0pLuS0]

Hi @Oleksiy-Yakovenko

Well, The Question is more like, how long has Wayland been around, that this hasn't been agreed upon already.

We could be sitting here for several more years.

I understand you'd like to work with a Standard, but, it would be greatly appreciated if you could code something in the meantime that can work for Wayland.

The deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin isn't 100%, one issue I noticed, and I would really love to have this feature, in X, when you mouse over the system tray icon, it will show you the artist/album playing, but with this plugin under Wayland it doesn't.

I made a report here on the deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin's GitHub page, but there hasn't been any development on this for 4 years.

vovochka404/deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin#22

THANKS, keep up the great work, it's greatly appreciated, and I really appreciate your time here and consideration.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

The deadbeef-statusnotifier-plugin isn't 100%, one issue I noticed, and I would really love to have this feature, in X, when you mouse over the system tray icon, it will show you the artist/album playing, but with this plugin under Wayland it doesn't.

According to the README on statusnotifier github page - this is supposed to work, but a lot of DEs have compatibility issues.

[0pLuS0]

Hi @Oleksiy-Yakovenko

Ok, something has changed, I went to the preferences - plugins section for this plug and clicked Reset to defaults, now it's looking like this.

So I've been messing around with the preferences, trying to see if it will come around, not having any luck, not sure what's going on.

THANKS

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Have you tried looking in the plugin preferences for whether it's possible to disable the HTML formatting?
It seems like it has this option:
"Use plain text tooltip (if DE not support HTML tooltips)"

[0pLuS0]

The more I mess around with this plugin, it needs updating... I right clicked the tray icon, I was able to stop it from playing, but when I clicked on Play it won't start deadbeef.

Ahhh we seriously need a system tray icon that works in Wayland, this plugin is a bit broke.

THANKS

[0pLuS0]

Have you tried looking in the plugin preferences for whether it's possible to disable the HTML formatting? It seems like it has this option: "Use plain text tooltip (if DE not support HTML tooltips)"

Ahh my bad for overlooking that, ok with PlainText it's looking better. But now it says Artist and Album not specified, not sure about this...

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Well.. I'm sorry about that, but that's as far as I can help. I can't really provide support for 3rd party plugins. I understand the frustration, but that's just how things are -- projects get abandoned sometimes.

[0pLuS0]

I understand and I appreciate your time and help, it is greatly appreciated.

Just hope you'll have the time soon to get some native wayland support built in.

THANKS

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

native wayland support built in.

To my best knowledge, Deadbeef has native wayland support.
Status / tray icon support is not even a part of wayland, unless I misunderstand something.
They are provided by DEs, both in Wayland and X11, and until they're standardized -- there's no much point for me to do anything. It would end up to be the same experience as you're getting with that plugin.

[0pLuS0]

To what you mentioned before, deadbeef uses; xembed status icons

The xembed protocol is tied to X11.

When you say they are provided by DE, it's my understanding, because some of have made workarounds for this, but Hyprland with waybar, by my understanding, has no such implemented addon/work arounds for xembed.