[Duplicate]: No status icon in GNOME 3 (Debian 11)

[marbx]

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• This is a bug, not a question or a configuration issue.
• This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
• Nextcloud Server and Desktop Client are up to date. See Server Maintenance and Release Schedule and Desktop Releases for supported versions.
• I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct

Bug description

The NextClold system tray icon doesn't appear at all on Debian 11

Steps to reproduce

• Installed Debian 11, all settings left as default, resuting in GNOME 3, Wayland
• Installed Nextcloud via "Software"
• Logged into NextCloud
• Enabled auto-start
• Rebooted several times, waited several days.
• NextCloud seems to run in the background, but there is no system tray icon.

Expected behavior

A NextCloud icon (e.g. the green tick mark) appears in the system tray

Which files are affected by this bug

The Debian system tray

Operating system

Linux

Which version of the operating system you are running.

Debian 11

Package

Distro package manager

Nextcloud Server version

23.0.6

Nextcloud Desktop Client version

3.1.1 (Debian)

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

Fresh desktop client install

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

Encryption is Disabled

Are you using an external user-backend?

• Default internal user-backend
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Nextcloud Server logs

No response

Additional info

Clicking on "Create Debug Archive" has no effect

[claucambra]

Hi, what desktop environment are you using? If it is GNOME (or another DE that does not display app indicators by default), do you have an extension that enabled app indicators to be displayed? Thanks!

[marbx]

Hi @claucambra
thank you! And yes, GNOME is the Debian 11 default desktop environment.

Regarding extensions: my issue is that NextCloud requires the end user to perform additional installations.

I now have read the GNOME blog of 2017-08-31 about status icons and found the status of the NextCloud Status Icon Migration to be "Standard behavior is fine without the status icon, since the window can be accessed via the launcher. Integration via libcloudprovider is also planned for GNOME 3.26, and this should provide access to the window."

GNOME 3.26 has been released in September 2017.

As I now realize this is a GNOME issue, and not a Debian issue, I changed the title and close this issue as a duplicate of issue #2217 which mentioned GNOME 3.36.3 in July 2020