Roberto Leinardi's comment on 9-29 might have been accurate for him, but overall it is not right. Appindicators still do not work on 18.10, including a fresh install of 18.10 after its release date, one in which Unity was never installed, nor unity-tweak-tool. I've seen that message repeated all over and it does nothing to solve the problem for me nor for most other people.
-- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp