Mintreport does report that XApp Status applet is missing even if is already added

[RudahXimenes]

Mintreport is oddly reporting that XApp Status Applet isn't added to the panel, but in reality it is.

This screenshot shows the applet added and the Mintreport tray icon saying, in Brazillian Portuguese, that XApp Status Applet is not added to the panel

If I click at the icon in tray, Mintreport opens and the tray icon vanish. Until last cinnamon update, yesterday (28/12/2019), mintreport didn't show anything when opened. Today is showing to add XApp Status Applet, but is already added.

Mintreport asking to add XApp Status Applet and Applet Configuration showing XApp Status Applet added

I updated my Mint from Linux Mint 19.2 using Update Manager, as recommended, and now I have up-to-date Linux Mint 19.3.

I'm using:
OS: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia x86_64
Kernel: 5.0.0-37-generic
DE: Cinnamon 4.4.6

I don't know how to reproduce this bug, once it happend apparently random, but constantly.

Thank you all in advance!

[samilanki]

Same issue with 32-bit lap top.

[mtwebster]

Hi can you paste the output of this command in a terminal:

dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.x

and then, the output of this:

python3 -c "import gi; gi.require_version('XApp', '1.0'); from gi.repository import XApp; print(XApp.StatusIcon.any_monitors());"

Thanks

[RudahXimenes]

Unfortunately I crashed my old system uninstalling pulseaudio, so I made a new clean install with 19.3 and this bahavior is not showing up.

Maybe @samilanki could keep tracking this bug.

[snemes]

Happened today again, here is the command output:

$ dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.x
      string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-2119-0"
      string "org.x.StatusIconMonitor.PID-2089-0"
      string "org.x.editor"
      string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-2629-0"
      string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-31533-0"

$ python3 -c "import gi; gi.require_version('XApp', '1.0'); from gi.repository import XApp; print(XApp.StatusIcon.any_monitors());"
True

[HelloMrKrinkle]

dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.x
string "org.x.StatusIconMonitor.PID-1460-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-1507-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-1511-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-1759-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-1619-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-1917-0"

[mtwebster]

Hi, there's a new version of xapps (1.6.10) that should be available, if not now, very soon (depending on your download mirror).

Thanks

[HelloMrKrinkle]

so far so good since the update

[KHeilen]

Quoting from the referenced issue #181 about the same issue:

So far no more false alert has been raised by Mint System Report to add the xapps-status-applet, after
libxapp1:i386 1.6.10+tricia
xapps-common 1.6.10+tricia
had been installed on 09-Jan-2020 21:00 CET.
Keeping my fingers crossed.

[adam4235]

I seem to be getting this issue too after just installing Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE version. Here is the output of those commands.

adam>dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.x
string "org.xfce.Terminal5"
string "org.xfce.Xfconf"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-26552-0"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-26456-0"
string "org.x.StatusIconMonitor.PID-2959-0"
string "org.xfce.Panel"
string "org.xfce.PowerManager"
string "org.xfce.FileManager"
string "org.x.StatusIcon.PID-26881-0"
string "org.xfce.SessionManager"
string "org.xfce.Thunar"
string "org.xfce.SettingsDaemon"
adam>python3 -c "import gi; gi.require_version('XApp', '1.0'); from gi.repository import XApp; print(XApp.StatusIcon.any_monitors());"
True
adam>

I posted this in the forums before finding this bug report:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=317984

[adam4235]

It seems that the relevant file is
/usr/share/linuxmint/mintreport/reports/045_xappstatusapplet-missing/MintReportInfo.py

I notice that file checks for the use of Cinnamon or XFCE. In my case although I'm using XFCE, I'm also using the i3 window manager with it and disabling some XFCE components, so my setup is a bit non-standard. Could I have hit an edge case as a result of my non-standard setup?

[adam4235]

Anyway I've worked around the problem by deleting /usr/share/linuxmint/mintreport/reports/045_xappstatusapplet-missing but a proper solution would still be good.

[adam4235]

I was thinking, could this be a race condition based on when the panel starts and when mintreport starts? I notice my Application Autostart is what starts mintreport-tray ("System Reports"). If that report runs before the panel starts, then it would think XApp isn't present, right? In my case the panel is started from a saved session.

[mtwebster]

Have you updated to the latest xapps? This is fixed in 1.6.10 -

dpkg --list | grep libxapp

[adam4235]

Yes:

adam>dpkg --list | grep libxapp
ii  libxapp1:amd64                             1.6.10+tricia                                    amd64        XApp library