Tray with libdbusmenu-gtk3 is buggy

[freijon]

Describe the bug
I'm upgrading the Gentoo package to the new version but I've noticed that the tray behaves strangely. When I click the tray icon then most of the time, nothing happens. I have these warnings/errors in the stdout:

2024-11-25T05:06:30.093663Z WARN GTK: 112: [LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB] Unable to get session bus: Operation was cancelled
2024-11-25T05:06:32.540958Z ERROR GTK: 111: [LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB] CRITICAL: dbusmenu_menuitem_send_about_to_show: assertion 'DBUSMENU_IS_MENUITEM(mi)' failed

But on other times it works fine and the menu is shown. Sometimes it also works once and then stops working.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Click on a tray icon (I'm using the one from Steam)
2. Nothing happens
3. Check the stdout

Expected behavior
The menu opens all the time.

System information:

• Distro: Gentoo
• Compositor: niri
• Ironbar version: 0.16.1

[JakeStanger]

It seems odd that'd be tempermental, but this to me reads like an environmental issue. Perhaps a race condition between Ironbar starting and your dbus session (env vars) loading. There have been other Niri-specific tray issues recently too.

Are you able to confirm if this is still an issue for yourself on another compositor please?

[freijon]

Interesting thought!
I gave it a try with Hyprland. Observations:

• The warning message from my initial post is always there and apparently has nothing to do with the issue
• At first, I was not able to reproduce the issue. But it seems when I kill ironbar, freshly start it and directly go for the tray menu, it will fail. The error message was the same on Hyprland
• After ironbar is running for a while, it seems the tray menu fixes itself and it starts working (permanently?). This is where it seems niri behaves differently than Hyprland. With niri it felt like on/off randomly whereas in Hyprland it was first off, then on

P.S. with 0.16.0 I had no such issues

[quietvoid]

On Sway I often get issues when turning my monitors back on.
For the tray it happens that old apps are still shown and I have to reopen ironbar.