Google Chrome Flatpak tray icon issues in KDE
After installing Google Chrome from Bazaar, the tray icon for google chrome duplicates itself, with the original tray icon being able to spawn new chrome windows, but the active window not allowing for spawning of said windows.
This slightly messes up my workflow in browser and doesn't appear to effect Firefox or Brave Flatpaks.
I haven't tested Gnome, so I don't know if this is a bigger issue or not. Output of journalctl while opening Chrome is attached.
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I have found a fix.
First, copy the .desktop file to your local applications folder.
/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.google.Chrome/current/active/export/share/applications/com.google.Chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
Then edit the .desktop file in your favorite editor...35 Replies
did you try closing/re opening or loggingin/out
this seems simple
Yes, issue still occurs even after a reboot or restart of chrome
lemme get it & see
If you clean install google chrome, the first time it runs it works correctly. Close it and reopen it to see the spawned tray icons.
Not sure if its a permission issue or just a side effect of the chrome flatpak
hmm i installed the flatpak & it does work seemingly always
but i did notice something
Hmm. This is on a clean install of Bazzite, strange?
Maybe it is something to do with mesa? I am on an AMD gpu
the icons do double up for a sec
but one disappears
after a bit
I also signed in to my account, so maybe that also effects it.
& the other does toggle the window
i say toggle because minimize/unminimize is long to type
Yeah its a very minor bug
another observation
the first icon from the left persumably the first thing that spawns is the icon that goes away
eventually
It does if you don't have it pinned to your tray I just noticed
So maybe this is a kde bug with the task manager on the taskbar
maybe pin the one that represents the Window
That one won't give the option
hmm strange
same
just tested
the old icon shows new spawn options and pinning/unpinning, even though it doesn't show an active window
if i open the app launcher & drag the icon from there to pin it it works
I just tried that and as soon as I click on the icon it still has two icons, strange...
hmm yeah
the new icon is the window
hmm
tried the same thing in brave
another chromium based browser
flatpak of course
& it doesn't have double icons
not when started nor when pinned
this might just be chrome specific behavior
might be trying to emulate the Windows 7 style
where as i recall the pin is separate from the running instances
behaves the same as it does here one icon opens it the other contains all the windows
Strange thing is in arch/cachyos, installing chrome natively doesn't have this issue
was about to ask about/test that
Haven't had a chance to read the full thread yet, but wanted to jump in and say that I'm having the same issue. I've had the same issue for the last 3 months or so, on my OneXPlayer G1 running Stable Bazzite KDE. I can't not into desktop anymore but that's another issue in the discord I'm waiting to great about lol
I haven't tried rpm-ostree to install chrome as I don't wanna risk breaking any future updates
i just tried the Nix OS package
which is the offiial deb version re packaged to work on Nix OS
& it doesn't do thos weord thomg
it works like you'd axpect
no idea why flatpak chrome does this
Very weird
more pointless information
tried it on cinnamon x11 & plasma x11 both don't have this problem
it's ONLY the flatpak & ONLY on plasma wayland
tried cinnamon on wayland but that's experimental so the flatpak crashes the desktop on my system at least
the non flatpak package works on cinnamon wayland as well
hmm that makes me think
Looks like this is related to this issue: https://github.com/flathub/com.google.Chrome/issues/83
GitHub
com.google.Chrome.desktop - StartupWMClass · Issue #83 · flathub/...
Hi Is it possible to add "StartupWMClass=Google-chrome" to com.google.Chrome.desktop? Or is it left out for a good reason? I have a problem with duplicate icons on my dock if I don't ...
Solution
I have found a fix.
First, copy the .desktop file to your local applications folder.
/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.google.Chrome/current/active/export/share/applications/com.google.Chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
Then edit the .desktop file in your favorite editor
/var/home/chaosmaou/.local/share/applications/com.google.Chrome.desktop
Add StartupWMClass=google-chrome underneath Name=Google Chrome under the [Desktop Entry] at the top of the file.
You must also then update both Exec= lines for both normal and incognitio modes, adding --class=com.google.Chrome before com.google.Chrome near the end of both lines:
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/chrome --class=com.google.Chrome com.google.Chrome
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/chrome --class=com.google.Chrome com.google.Chrome --incognito
Then save the file.Then make sure to unzip and repin chrome to the taskbar. I also did a full logout and login, which may not be required. Tray icon behaves normally now.
I also just reported this to that open bug report that has been dead since 2023.
nice
though i got up today & started it only to notice it somehow fixed itself
Even more strange
I love when things break but when you come back later it just works again for some reason
Yeah that is weird. The .desktop fixed worked for me though, so strange