The issue is that chrome/electron enable the use of indicators only under Unity, they need to be fixed. The TopIcon code handles the legacy systray but that's deprecated and being removed from GNOME and shouldn't be used nowadays, the correct fix there is to make electron use indicators in our session which Marco said he had an idea about
** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (TreviƱo) (3v1n0) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714255 Title: Electron and Chrome based apps don't show icons in the tray To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/+bug/1714255/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs