I'm also having this problem (I'm on 18.04). It's exactly like Robin Sheat described - usually the icons don't load on the first boot, and then if you reboot they might load, but sometimes not. It's either all the icons on or all off. Clearly it's some kind of a race condition...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-appindicator in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795121 Title: 18.10: Indicator icons not shown in the panel Status in gnome-shell-extension-appindicator package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The indicator icons are not showing on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.10 beta. On 18.04 I can see the tray icons of Chrome, Hangouts, Dropbox and InSync but on 18.10 they are missing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator 22-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-7.8-generic 4.18.5 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-7-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Sep 29 10:00:34 2018 Dependencies: InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-28 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20180927) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/+bug/1795121/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
