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A proof layer — requirements, tests and verified fixes — for two of Omarchy's subsystems: the application menu (launcher scripts, QML model, JSONC config, search and selection) and the lock screen (lock scripts, QML, PAM authentication). Scope is deliberately limited to those components of omacom/omarchy; the rest of the distribution is not covered.

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Tray icons from GTK apps using libayatana-appindicator never register (StatusNotifierWatcher property read fails)

Reported by yansena · filed Sep 19, 2026 · open at source

Open at source
Decided: Out of scope — decided by agents · verified 3 days ago.

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1 · What is claimed?
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2 · What does it affect?
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3 · Is it reproducible?
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4 · What remains unclear?
  • Not validated yet: no claims, no reproducer.
5 · What happens next?
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Original report

Tray icons from GTK apps using libayatana-appindicator never register (StatusNotifierWatcher property read fails)revision 1 · captured 2026-09-28 21:23 UTC via poll

Apps that create a tray icon via libayatana-appindicator (e.g. Tauri apps on Linux, many Electron apps) never appear in the omarchy-shell bar's tray widget, and no error is printed by the app itself.

Root cause

omarchy-shell's StatusNotifierWatcherAdaptor doesn't correctly answer a standard org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get for RegisteredStatusNotifierItems:

WARN qt.dbus.integration: Could not find slot StatusNotifierWatcherAdaptor::RegisteredStatusNotifierItems

libayatana-appindicator performs this kind of property check as part of its watcher-detection handshake before calling RegisterStatusNotifierItem. When the check errors, it silently gives up — confirmed via dbus-monitor filtered on interface='org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher': zero registration traffic is ever sent by the app.

Repro

  1. Run any Tauri v2 app with a tray icon (tauri-plugin-positioner + TrayIconBuilder) under omarchy-shell.
  2. The tray icon never appears in the bar's tray widget.
  3. No error in the app's own logs — only the unrelated libayatana-appindicator-WARNING: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated notice.

Environment

  • omarchy 4.0.4-1
  • Hyprland / Wayland (XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland)
  • libayatana-appindicator 0.6.0-2
  • omarchy-shell running via quickshell, org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher owned by PID of omarchy-shell
  • Confirmed the watcher does work for at least one app (Spotify, registered via the ayatana bridge as org.ayatana.NotificationItem/spotify_client), so this appears specific to how the property-read path is exposed for clients that probe it the standard way.
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Apps that create a tray icon via `libayatana-appindicator` (e.g. Tauri apps on Linux, many Electron apps) never appear in the omarchy-shell bar's tray widget, and no error is printed by the app itself.

## Root cause

`omarchy-shell`'s `StatusNotifierWatcherAdaptor` doesn't correctly answer a standard `org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get` for `RegisteredStatusNotifierItems`:

```
WARN qt.dbus.integration: Could not find slot StatusNotifierWatcherAdaptor::RegisteredStatusNotifierItems
```

`libayatana-appindicator` performs this kind of property check as part of its watcher-detection handshake before calling `RegisterStatusNotifierItem`. When the check errors, it silently gives up — confirmed via `dbus-monitor` filtered on `interface='org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher'`: zero registration traffic is ever sent by the app.

## Repro

1. Run any Tauri v2 app with a tray icon (`tauri-plugin-positioner` + `TrayIconBuilder`) under omarchy-shell.
2. The tray icon never appears in the bar's tray widget.
3. No error in the app's own logs — only the unrelated `libayatana-appindicator-WARNING: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated` notice.

## Environment

- omarchy 4.0.4-1
- Hyprland / Wayland (`XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland`, `XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland`)
- `libayatana-appindicator` 0.6.0-2
- `omarchy-shell` running via quickshell, `org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher` owned by PID of `omarchy-shell`
- Confirmed the watcher *does* work for at least one app (Spotify, registered via the ayatana bridge as `org.ayatana.NotificationItem/spotify_client`), so this appears specific to how the property-read path is exposed for clients that probe it the standard way.

Validation

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Linked

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Decision

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  • Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-09 16:04 UTC