Inkdrop doesn't show up in Dock in Ubuntu 18.04

anon82783771 · January 24, 2019, 10:55am

Bug report

When you open Inkdrop on Ubuntu 18.04 it never shows up in the system’s Dock.

Info

Platform: Ubuntu
Platform version: 18.04
App Version: 3.25.3

Reproduce

Open the app, navigate with your eyes to the system’s dock, see nothing

craftzdog · January 24, 2019, 12:20pm

Hi Pedro,

Thank you for the report.
I suspect that you didn’t install the app via .deb package?

anon82783771 · January 24, 2019, 12:47pm

Hi Takuya,

I did - its a brand new installation. Also my Ubuntu install is quite fresh (from 2 days ago).

Best regards,
Pedro

craftzdog · January 24, 2019, 2:56pm

That’s weird.
Do you have /usr/share/applications/inkdrop.desktop installed?
The file should contain below:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=inkdrop
Comment=The Note-taking App with Robust Markdown Editor
GenericName=inkdrop
Exec=inkdrop %U
Icon=inkdrop
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;

anon82783771 · January 29, 2019, 3:07pm

Yep - it’s exactly the same.

scp → git fix-warnings* → cat /usr/share/applications/inkdrop.desktop [scp]
[Desktop Entry]
Name=inkdrop
Comment=The Note-taking App with Robust Markdown Editor
GenericName=inkdrop
Exec=inkdrop %U
Icon=inkdrop
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;

craftzdog · January 30, 2019, 12:47am

Thank you for the report.
Hmm, I’m afraid that I don’t understand why it doesn’t work. I can’t reproduce it.
BTW, our Snap app has been recently rolled out. Could you try it?

https://docs.inkdrop.app/manual/#installing-inkdrop-on-linux

anon82783771 · January 30, 2019, 12:29pm

Hi Takuya,

I tried the snap version and the same issue occurs.
I also asked a friend who’s also running Ubuntu 18.04 to install it and she had the same issue - the icon would never pop in the system’s menu.

Maybe you’re running a different window manager?

We got Ubuntu 18.04 in English running on Gnome 3 (standard WM) logging in through GDM.

craftzdog · January 30, 2019, 12:40pm

Thank you for trying the snap app.
I’m using Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 18.04, too.
I will try setting up new Ubuntu for reproducing the issue.

craftzdog · January 30, 2019, 12:59pm

I tried the snap app on a brand new installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1 that is downloaded from here.
As you can see, the app icon is showing on the system tray:

I haven’t done anything after the installation completed.
Just in case, here I put a list of gnome packages so that you can find missing packages:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/craftzdog/3c74a8390ad886995913d9dc3e942084

gistfile1.txt

$ dpkg -l | grep gnome
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0:amd64            3.28.0-2                            amd64        Introspection data for GnomeBluetooth
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0:amd64              3.28.2-0ubuntu1                     amd64        Introspection data for GnomeDesktop
ii  gkbd-capplet                               3.26.0-3                            amd64        GNOME control center tools for libgnomekbd
ii  gnome-accessibility-themes                 3.28-1ubuntu1                       all          High Contrast GTK+ 2 theme and icons
ii  gnome-bluetooth                            3.28.0-2                            amd64        GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  gnome-calendar                             3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1             amd64        Calendar application for GNOME
ii  gnome-control-center                       1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1           amd64        utilities to configure the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-control-center-data                  1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1           all          configuration applets for GNOME - data files
ii  gnome-control-center-faces                 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1           all          utilities to configure the GNOME desktop - faces images

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Also please check XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable, according to this thread. It is set to ubuntu:GNOME in my environment:

$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
ubuntu:GNOME