The indicators shows a big white square when systray whitelisted

Sorry, This is the empathy's screenshot > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/822672/+attachment/2261561/+files/Screenshot%20at%202011-08-08%2014%3A42%3A50.png

Similar Bug #814295

This Happens on Unity for the Alpha 3. I am not running any program which shows uses an indicator, as far as I know. It appears every thing I Login. Screen-shot is attached

all the applications that I have use indicator applet so the issue does not happen, could anyone point me to an app that uses systray so that I could try to reproduce the issue here.

Cryptkeeper. (And now, I don't have any systray app, and the square is
always there)
El 26/08/2011 19:26, "Omer Akram" <email address hidden> escribió:
> all the applications that I have use indicator applet so the issue does
> not happen, could anyone point me to an app that uses systray so that I
> could try to reproduce the issue here.
>
> ** Also affects: unity
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822672
>
> Title:
> The indicators shows a big white square when an app doesn't support
> indicators
>
> Status in Unity:
> Incomplete
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> For example, Empathy and Cryptkeeper, they don't show and indicator, they
make a big white square (only when they are running, the normal desktop when
it's not running empathy or other app that doesn't support indicators shows
a clean desktop, without the white square)
> I attach 2 screenshots
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: unity 4.6.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> CompizPlugins:
[core,bailer,detection,crashhandler,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,imgjpeg,decor,grid,place,vpswitch,mousepoll,imgsvg,blur,resize,dbus,zoom,obs,text,regex,commands,move,winrules,shift,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,wobbly,animation,scale,expo,animationaddon,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,unityshell]
> CompositorRunning: compiz
> Date: Mon Aug 8 14:54:44 2011
> DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-08-06 20:34:16.741105
> DistroCodename: oneiric
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> DkmsStatus:
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'BUILT_MODULE_NAME' directive specified for record
#0.
> Error! Bad conf file.
> File:
> does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.
> GraphicsCard:
> nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2) (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
> Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:2941]
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
(20110427.1)
> MachineType: ACER Aspire M5640/M3640
> ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-7-generic
root=UUID=78a6d886-effa-4cee-ab75-43e1b4f421b0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
> SourcePackage: unity
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-06 (1 days ago)
> dmi.bios.date: 09/11/2008
> dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: R01-B4
> dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.board.name: MCP73PV
> dmi.board.vendor: ACER
> dmi.board.version: NVIDIA MCP73
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrR01-B4:bd09/11/2008:svnACER:pnAspireM5640/M3640:pvrR01-B4:rvnACER:rnMCP73PV:rvrNVIDIAMCP73:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
> dmi.product.name: Aspire M5640/M3640
> dmi.product.version: R01-B4
> dmi.sys.vendor: ACER
> version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9....

Can confirm that the following command makes the box go away:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['none']"

after logging out and back in, of course.

Same problem here. In my case, I still had the old setup for update-notifier where an icon appears when updates are available, because I preferred that behaviour to having the window pop up. As far as I can tell, choosing this behaviour also causes crash reports to appear in the systray; one of the reasons I'd whitelisted it (back when testing Natty) was that I was not getting crash reports otherwise. Attaching a screenshot with update and crash notifications.

Thanks for the fix Omer - for me this was really causing problems. Probably it's not an issue on a clean install, but without whitelisting everything I was experiencing major loss of functionality: I thought I'd returned my settings to the defaults, but I kept getting notification bubbles like 'An application has crashed... click the notification icon for details' or 'System restart required, click the notification icon for details'. But there were no notification icons, so I couldn't access crash reports, and had to put back the ugly white box!

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.12.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.12.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - P3: [natty] Cannot click on indicators (LP: #819202)
    - Icons not visible in the launcher or alt-tab switcher (LP: #833905)
    - [dash] Search field in Unity can not support iBus (LP: #663776)
    - [dash] preferred applications are not stored in GConf anylonger
      (LP: #805063)
    - SysTray icons have a white square background in Unity. (LP: #823407)
    - new dash does not fit a normal netbook screen (LP: #825370)
    - Dash picks random weird colors (yellow, green), fonts invisible (with
      blur en- or disabled) (LP: #828363)
    - Music Lens doesn't display items until you search (LP: #824892)
    - Dash - Adjustments to stateful behaviour (LP: #838667)
    - Dragging from dash to launcher still doesn't work (LP: #824833)
    - Click on 'More Apps' et al closes the dash (LP: #824842)
    - cannot paste into dash (particularly relevant for alt+f2) (LP: #736222)
    - Ctrl X doesn't cut selected text in Dash search field (LP: #737731)
    - Ctrl+C doesn't copy selected text in Dash search field (LP: #737732)
    - The indicators shows a big white square when systray whitelisted
      (LP: #822672)
    - ARM FTBFS fix (LP: #834576)
  * debian/control:
    - build on latest nux
  * debian/rules:
    - bump shlibs
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:33:06 +0200

This bug seems to have returned, or else its cousin has arrived on the scene. See the attached screenshot taken while applying updates today. Note: to make sure it was not due to a compiz crash that had occurred, and that it wasn't fixed by the latest updates, I ran apt-get update again, resulting in the big black square in the screenshot.
(It seems I can only do one attachment, and I don't want to start spamming inboxes, so I'm only including last screenshot. I have another with a giant grey 'package manager working' icon the size of the black box, another with a regular-sized orange 'updates ready' icon that appears about 2 cm below the panel, and another with a 'restart required' icon about twice the usual size.)

Sorry, just one more screenshot, since this one's my favourite - the result at the moment of apt-daemon checking for updates in the background.